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The Clinton News Record, 1932-03-03, Page 3THURS., MARCH 3, 1932. THE CLINTON. NEWS -RECORD t As we understandthe law, a sen, ata becomes disqualified if he be- comes benisrupt but not ie he nue; uses his position as a :senator to snake enough money to avoid beesitsi- ing bankrupt. ' ii Peace hath her defeats not less inglorious than war. Irish•finanaes are in a strong Liq- uid position, declared Premier Cos- grave, Sere, mat he do be meaning that they are not now in a freeze state. Another: simile: "Ice's as popular as contract bridge is with people who don't play it." De Valera proposes a high tariff against Britain. 'Why not go further and prohibit the export of Irish cattle, sheep and hogs to the Sas- senach? And why not obliterate all English signs and 'compel the English tourist to 'take his way as best lie can through the maze of Gaelic terminologies? The most ef- fective.way to spite the face is to but off the nose. IVIr. Davis, a Westinghouse director, 'is credited by the Wall St. Journal with having predicted, a few years ago,' that "in the realm of electricity "on the air" we will go the scriptures one better and make ten blades of grass grow where only one grew before." He is not going the scriptures one better, but is go- ing eight better than Dean Swift. "Stabilizing Prosperity," is the tit- le of a article in a social and finan- cial journal. We did not read it be- cause we read many years age, the Lemons recipe for cooking a rabbit which began with the words; "First catch your rab'bit." Prance has ordered gas masks for the protection of her civilian popu- lation in the event of war. Which means that in the event of war France intends to use gas against •the enemy. c J will affe t injuriously the Chicago drainage anal, which affected in- Curiously the Great bastes' level, l� Thirteen hours' difference in time makes dispatches from the Orient bewildering: News that carries joy or .sorrow Flashes from the field of bight: Chineiie captured Tsang 'to -morrow, Got the hews at ten to -night. • Wb call them heathen and all that, but really they fight and slaughter: :each 'other almost as .skilfully as Christian nations ever did. There was close fighting at Shang- hai yesterday, says a dispatch. We gather from this that that Highland regiment was engaged. , A few civil servants who 'object to the ten per cent. eat are using the familiar but fallacious argument that it will not improve the situa- tion to reduce buying power. Of course, it will not reduce •buying power. It will only redistribute it. The finance minister, as was said by Robert Lowe of the chancellor of the exchequer, "is given every year a certain quantity of misery to dis- tribute, and it is his duty to dis, tribute it fairly." He cannot do it fairly and allow one class to escape its share. That class would then not only be carrying no part of the !bur- den, but would actually be profiting by the extra burden carried by others, especially by the producers of what we eat and drink and wear. The farmer took up his share of grief first and has been carrying it ever since. The worker thrown out of a job took it in full measure. Other walkers on reduced hours or pay took it in graduated quantities. Investors and speculators took their medicine 'in large gulps. 112en living on income from investments took theirs in the shape of passed or re- ducea dididends. It is natural (be- ing selfish) to try to escape ones allotment oI 'the national misery, but it must be done. Better do it grace- fully, With a smile rather than a wry face, remembering that ninety per ent. to -day is higher than a'hundred er cent. was a few years ago; that the tenure of employment is reason- bly secure and the pay prompt and medal. Chicago protests the St. Law- a rence waterways scheme 'because it c e s app pings in the Countg and ,jistr1cct. GODERICEI: The marriage of Miss Margaret Edwards, daughter .of ]V];t, and llrs. G. II. Edwards, of 'Toronto to Jack Mason Beattie of Goderieh, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ro, bort Beattie of Winghnm, took place in St. Aidan'•s Anglican church, Windsor on Saturday. Rev. William Bartley, rector of St. Aiden's church performed the ceremony. Me. and alas. Beattie will reside in Goderieh, Mas, Beattie is a graduate of Alex- andra Marine andGeneral Hospital, Goderieh. ibir. Beattie is in charg,e of the uptown C. P. R. ticket office., WALTON: The 75th anniversary of the Winthrop L. 0. L. was cele- brated in the hall last week. Pro- gressive euchare was played, Mrs..- George rs.George Eaton and Will Rerr winning first prizes. A chert program was put on consisting 'of aldsresses lby John Bullard, chairman. Rev. Mr. Bmith and William Kinney; Highland fling, Reggie and Mary Pryce, bag- pipe selections Angus Mare and a vocal solo, Oharles Boyd. A deli- cious lunch was served and the re- mainder of the evening passed in old -thee daareing. DUNGANNON: The annual meet, ing of the shareholders of the God - oriels Rural Telephone -Company was held in the 'office of the manager, Thomas 'Stothers, on Friday after- noon, with a good attendance, The followving officers and direct- ors were appointed for the ensuing year: President, William Bailie, Goderieh; vice-president, William I inlay, Aehfield; Directors, John Dustow, Goderieh; W. J. Parks and T. W. Riddell, Auburn; Jarvis Me - Bride, Carlow; Calvin 'Curt, Goder- ieh; Jerry Cranston, Dungannon; Secretary, Treasurer and chief oper- ator, N. Ie. Whyard, Dungannon;. Manager, Thomeas 'Slathers, Dungan lorMailliMailmiiMaramsruef Cooks in Zea mins. after the water boils „' non. The . positiin of line -mill, wV'hich, had been advertised was given to J. l). Richardson oe Fergus, at a salary of $1,200 per year, his duties to .commence April 1. Mr. Richard- son lies had saX year,' experience with the Bell Telephone Company. Upwards iof forty applications were received for the position. A delega- tion from the Northern pest of Ash- field was present and made some propositions tta the Company, re pur- chase, etc., but no agreement was arrived at. IIENSALL: The Firemen's' euchre and dance in the town.: hall .on 'Fri- etay evening was largely attended and enjoyed by mire large number pre- sent. Good music was, provided by a 'number of 'local musieans ion' tee violin and piano. The firstprize for ladies in progressive euchre Was woe by blas. W. Peitz, Kipper, and for gentlemen, by Ed. 'Sheffer, Hensen. The lucky number for thelunch bas, kerb . was won by Miss Smtiliie.. Mr. Barr is, here from .Alberta, visiting his relatives, David Nicol and family. Mir. Barr was a resident. of Blyth for many years ,before going West. IENSALL: The shipping of on- ions lby Hensen "Ona•on Kings" will soon be in full swing as 'Hensel] has always been a great centre for onion shipments, The industry bas afford- ed a great deal •of labor for men, women, girls and boys in the plant- ing, pulling and cleaning for ship- ment. EXETER: The annual banquet of the Exeter Chamber of Commerce was both instructive and entertain- ing, when they had as guest speaker of the evening R. L. Stratton, 'dis, triet manager of the Bell Telephone Company, London, and president 'of the London Chamber of Commerce. The meeting opened with an address by the president of the Exeter chamber, who outlined the aims for the coming year and 'rade an appeal to all interested citizens for increas- ed ncreased membership, He also paid glow- ing lowing tribute to a member of the Exe- ter Chamber of Commerce, Byron E. Hicks, killed on Saturday when his car was struck by a train. GODERICH: A pair of white gloves were presented to Jester) Sedgewiek when he opened the spring assizes here on Monday, for there were no criminal ebses on the dock- et., All the jurors have been notifieii that their services -will not be requir- ed. The jury also isas been dropped in the two civil eases listed in that category. The omission of the ;jury means a. saving of at least $70O to the county, which paid a huge sum last year for the 'administration of justice. The most interesting ease in the docket is that of the Can- aada Trust 'Company, administrator o� the late Percy 'Welton, "soft chink" manufacturer eaf Goderieh, trailing under the name of the Goderieh Min, Brat Water Company, against Tena Maude Walton, Margaret C. ;Armour, sisters of the late'Percy Walton, and the Bank of Montreal. The plaintiff trust company is seeking to secure possession of certain formulae anis recipes for the manufacture of gin- ger ale and other drinks, which are said to be looked up in a safety de- posit ,vault in the Goderieh brands of the Bank of 'Montreal. 'It is claimed that Lena Maude Walton has refused to td'eliver up the formulae and has threatened to destroy them, Lena Walton maintains that these recipes were given to 'her by her another with the dying With that she forever keep them sercet. She says. that she has always done' so and that during the life of her brother that she ha:self did all the 'nixing for the manufacture of the various beverages, which at one time had a wide popularity in Western Ontar- io. Slaght S. Coevals, of Toronto, are appearing for the plaintiffs, and R. S. Hays, •Seaforth, for defendants. SEAFORTII: A delightfully ar- ranged Dutch tea was helill last week in the school room of First Presiby- terian church under the auspices of the Goforth Mission Band, at whish there was a good attendance. The tables were effectively decorated with "wind mills and daffodils.. The pretty little waitresses ware dressed in quaint Duteb ,cos unties. Twenty dollars was realized. TIIOSE AMERICANS ARE AL- WAYS INTERESTED IN ROYALTY LONDON, Eaig., Feb. 29—Queen Mary unwittingly acted as a sales - Woman at the British Industries Pair., it was revealed, when an American buyer ordered three ;dia.zen replicas of the Chippendale chair in which he had seen the, Queen sitting. The chair was placed in an elepa- toe for the Queen. A,Oter she had left the fair, the American folloared attendants who eut the chair: back in a display 'booth. ' "Thait's my ehaii', the one the Queen !sat on," , the American said. "And I'll take 36 replicas, of it," he added. Wilson Gets Year in Reformatory for Forging GODERIC'II, Feb. 26.—A teen -ten of one year in he Ontario -Reform atory was this mmyiing passed b Judge Costello on Nioeman Wi1sos aged .25, who pleaded, guilty to tw charges •ee'forgery involving $83 The sentence will date frons Januar 23 last, when Wilson was first is • prism-led. Before sentence was passed' resit tution in the sun of $392: was made, an amount which Wilson had to his credit in a local bank. A oli,eque was drawn in court and an offices that Zoe the cash. The withdrawal of twice charges of theft followed. The case was a nicest unusual one and the ,cornu roam was filled with citizens this Morning when; the final curtain was run down. Ex-IVi'.ayoa, H J. A. MacEwan; councilor George P. Gould and Robert Doak, contrac- tor, gave character . evidence. They described accused as a capable, dile- lent, hard waking young man, who, in recent.years had been. the sole Mother.support of his other. They said he was the last man in the world they would expect .to commit forg- ery. I was not divulged in the pro'- ceedings why Wils'oar 'on November 4th last went to the Royal. Bank, Clinton, with a cheque bearing the forged signature of J. J. Moser, de- puty reeve of 'Goderieh and succeed- ed in securing $250 with amazing ease. The forgery deescribed as Glum sy and pitiful was so successful that Wilson in less than' the, holm walk- ed into the Royal Bask, Goderich and cashed another cheque bearing the sante signature for $550. On both cheques fictitious names were used as the payee. At neither Clin- ton nor Goderieh was Wilson know n by nate to the teller nor was he asked to identify himself. The cir- cumstances were described in court as •astounding. After -Willson had secured the cash he walked over to another 'bank and deposited 5600 in 'his own name. Five days later he; was mataiecl, The suns of $41 was!spent en clothes, rent, etc. 'The for genes were trot discovered until weeks after they wore committed duo to the fact that deputy reeve Moser, whose account was victimized was ill at home, In a plea for clemency Frank Donnelly defence counsel pointed to the Bouchard case at Ottawa when a one year sentence was imposed after a three weeks trial involving twenty nine charges, Counsel asked for sasspenile"cl sen, tense or at the most three months in common jail. "A short term is not sufficiet;n° declared the Judge, "1 troupe give you Iife, bub I have no'intenti'on of doing so. If I allow you 'to go 'it would Ibe an incentive to others to commit similar 'dimes. You did not do this because of your indifference to work, for you have ns good repu- tation as a worker. "I wish to pay tribute to this community on the absence •of crime. Since I came here (a year ago) this is but the second man el have been called upon to sentence. The sen- tence in this case wilt bis one year determinate. Society must be pro, totted," said his honor. co. n- n;. 0 0. 3 n,' USE FOR WASTE LUMBER Conservation of the -nation's for- ests promises to become ,a reality through a scientific utilization 'of waste timber, according to the Amer, 'lean survey btu'eau. "Modern science has evolved a pr.o- cess of making wood beards from waste lumber that 'doubtless even, tually•will become an important .fae- for in 'solving the timber -conserva- tion problem'," a bureau 'bulletin says. "By this process edgings, slabs and short lengths of natural forest -grown timber from the saw- mills, material formerly sent to the trash 'burners as worthless, are re- duced by terrific explosions from steam guns to a fibrous 'nose, which is subjected/to heat and pressure un- til it is converted rote strong, smooth grainless boards." PRIZE WINNERS AT HENSALL SEED SIIOW Favored with unusually fine weal thee for this time of year the Han- sel' spring seed show was held in the village Friday 'afternoon, Dr, A. R. 'Cannplreil, .president, in charge. There was a largo attendance .qf far- mners because of the good. condition of the roads, while the quality of the exhibits in every case was of a high standing. Prof.'W. D, Squirrel, al the 0.A,C', Guelph, was the chief speaker, de- livering an interesting talk on crop culture. Other ,speakers were: W. G. Saunders, :of Exeter; Owen Geiger, Henson, ansi Ian IlIacLead, Huron Agricultural representative. Chief among' tlse prize winners were: 'W;. Ii. Truemneee John Bolton, W. R. Dougall, John Robertson,. Ow- en Geiger & Sons, Alex. Buchanan, A. B. Bell and William Alexander. THIS MODEST CORNER IS DEDICATED TO THE POETS tier e They Will Sing You Their, Songs= -Sometimes Gay, Sometirnes Sad— But Always' Helpful and Ins piling. •3'M�NPIMIM�MN'PIMIC.Y.NNNdMNN41..~ WW 1,10 MARCH Slayer of the winter,art thou here again? 0 welcome, thou that tbsing''st the ; summer nigh! The bitter wind makes not thy•vic- tory vain, Nor will •we mock thee for -thy faint blue sky. Welcome, 0 alatcht whose kindly days and dry e Make April ready foe the throstie's sang Thou first ` redresser of the winter's wrong! Sea, welcome, March! and though. I die era June, Yet for the hope of life I give thee praise, Striving' to .swell the burden of the tune That even now 1 hear thy brown birds raise, Unmindful of the past nom corning days, Who sing: "0 joys a new year is begun: What happiness to look upon the sun!" Ah whab begetteth all this storm of bliss But Death himself, who, crying solemnly, E'en front the heart of sweet Forget- fulness, Bids us rejoice! lest pleasureless ye die. Within little time 'lust ye go by. Stretch forth your open hands, and, - while ye live, Take alt the gifts that Death and Life may give"? --•Morris. SAUL By Robert Browning (Believing that there are those 'Who would appreciate some of the world's m'aster'pieces of verse, we are puIlishing today a part of that splendid word picture, "Saul," ley Robert Browning. The poet' is too long to be run in its entirety, but will be published until finished, Ed,) :Said Abner, "At last thou art conies Ere I tell, ere thou speak, 1liss 'my cheek, wish me weld" Then I wished it, and diel Ides his cheek. And he: "Since tho Ring, 0 my friend, ''tor tny couretenance sent, Neither drunken 'nor eaten have we; nor until from his tent Thou return -with the joyful assur- ance the lima Iiveth yet, Shall our lip with the honey —be bright, With the water !be wet. For out of the black mid -tent's sil- ence, a space of three days, Not a sound hath .sopped to thy ser- vants, of prayer nor of praise, To betoken that Saul and the Spirit have ended their su'it'e, And that faint in this triamph, the monarch sinks back upon life. "Yet naw my heart leaps, 0 belovedl God's child with his dew On thy gracious gold head, and those lilies still living and blue. Just broken to twine round thy harp - stings, as if no wild Treat Were now raging to torture the de- sert!" Then I, as was meet, Knelt down to the God of my fath- ers, arms rose on my feet, And ran o'er the sand burnt to pow- der. The tent was uniooped. I pulled up the spear that obstructed, and under I steeped; Hands anel knees on the slippery grass -pitch, all withered and gone, That extends to the second eneles- ure, I groped any way on Till I felt where the foldskirts fly open. Then once mom. I prayed, And opened tite eoldskirts and enter- ed, and was not afraid But spoke, "Here is David, thy ser- vant!" And no voice replied. At the first I saw naught bntl, the blackness: but soon I descried A something more black than the blackness—the vast, the upright Main prop which,. sustains the pavil, ion: and slow into sight Grew a figure against it, gigantic and blackest of all. Then a sunbeam, that burst through the tent -roof,, showed Saul Ile . stood er erect as that tent -prop, botis arms stretched out wide On the great cross -support;' inthe centre, that goes to each side;. He relaxed nota .'muscle, but hung there as, caught in his pangs And waiting les change, the king serpent all heavily hangs, Far away from his lkind, in the pine, till deliverance tonne With the spring-tiinla,—so agonized Saul, dream and stark, blind and dumb. Then I -tuned my harp, -,took ,off the lilies., we twine round its chords- Lesb they snap 'neath the stress of the noontide --those sunbeams, like swot cls! Anti I first played the trine all our sheep know, as, one after. ori., So docile they come to the pen -door till folding be 'done. They are, white, and unborn by the bushes, for la theyhave fed Wiliera the long grasses stifle the water within the stream's bed; And now one after one seeks its lodging, as star follows star Into,eve and the blue far above us,--• so blue and so far! —Then the tune for which quails on the cornland will each leave his irate To fly after the player; then, what makes the crickets elate Till for boldness they fight one an- other; and then, what has weight To set the quick jerboa a -musing outside his sand house— There are none such as he for a won- der, -half bird and half mouse! God made all the creatures and gave then' our love and our fear, To give sign, we and they are his children, one family here. Then I played the help -tune of our reapers, their wine -song, when hand Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship, and great hearts expand And grow 'ane in the sense of this world's life.—And then, the last song When the dead man is praised 'on his journey --,"Bear, bear him, along, With his few faults • shut up like dead flowerets! Are balm seeds not hero To console us? The land has none left 'such as he on the bier. Oh, -Would we might keep thee, my brother!"—And then the glad chaunt ' Of the marriage,—first go the young maidens, next, she whom we vaunt As the :beauty, the pride of mu• dwelling,—And then, the great march Wherein man runs to man to assist hint and buttress an arch Naught can break; who shall harm them, our friends? Then, the chorus intoned As the Levites go up to the altar in i glory enthroned. But I stopped bare: for here in the clarlcrsess Saul groaned. And I paused, held my breath in such silence, and listened apart; And the tent shook, for mighty Saul shuddered: and sparkles 'gan dart Frain the jewels that woke in Isis • turban, at once, with a start, All its lordly male -sapphires, and rabies courageous at :heart. So the heats: but the body still moved not, still- hung there erect. And I beat once again to my playing prusued it unchecked, As I sang: --- "Oh, our manhood's prime vigor! No spirit feels waste, Not muscle' is stopped in its play- ' • ing nor sinew unbraced. Ot, the wild joys of living! the lesip- ing from rock up to rock, The strong rending of boughs from the fir tree, the cool silver shock Of the plunge in a pool's living water, the hunt of the bear, And the sultriness showing the lion • is couched in his lair. And the 'seal, the rieh'dates yellowed over with gold dust divine, And the locust -flesh steeped in the pitcher, the full draught of wine, And the sleep in the dried river - channel where buhushes tell That the water was wont to go verb, ling so softly and well. How good is man's life, the mere liv- ing! how fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy! Bast thou loved the white Ioeks of thy father, whose sword thou dndst guard. When he trusted thee forth with the arnsies, for glorious reward? Didist thou see the thin hands of thy mother, held up as 'nen sung • The low song of the nearly -departed, and hear her faint tongue - Joining, in while it could to the wit- ness, 'Let otie more attest,.. I have lived, seen God's -hand through a lifetime, •and all wasfor best?' Then they sung through their tears in strong triumph,` not much, but the rest. ' And thy brothers, the help , and the oddest, the working whence grew Such result es, from seebhing grape- bundles, the spirit strained! true: And the, friends of thy boyhood that boyhood of wonder and • Itasca Present promise and wealth of the PAGE 3: fistula beyond the eye's scope,— Ti lo, thou art grown to a monarche a people is thine; And all gifts, which .the world offers singly, on, one: head •combine! On ^.one hears all, the beauty ante' strength,' love and rage (like the throe That, a -work in the rock, holes its. labor and lets the gold go), • High ambition and deeds which sur- pass it, name crowning then',-=. all • Brought to blaze on the tread of, one. oreatuee—King Sault" And lo, with that leap tote my spirit,. '--heai't, hand, haa'p and voice, Each lifting Saul's name out of ser - row, each bidding rejoice ,Saul's fame in the light it was made for—as when, dare I say, The Lard's 'army, in rapture 'of ser- vice, strains through its array, And 'upsoareth the cherubim -chariot "Satin" cried I, and .stopped, Atnd ,waited' the thing that should follow. Then . SauI, who hung Propped By the tent's eross,supporb to the. centre, was struck by his name, Have ye seen when Spring's arrowy summons goes right to the aim, And some mountain, the last to with- stand her, that held (he alone) While time vale laughed in freedom. and flowers) on a broad bust of atone A. year's snow bound about far a• ' the sheet? Fold on fold all at once it crowds. thunderously down to his feet. And there fronts you, stark, black, but alive yet, your mountain ea old, With his rents, the successive be, queathing of ages untold— Yea, each harm gat in fighting Your battles, each furrow and scar Of his head thrust 'twist you and the temp -test All bail, there they are! —Now again to be softened with. verdure, again hold the nest Of the dove, tempt the goat and its young to the green on Isis crest For their food in the ardors of sum- mer. One long shudder thrilled' All the tent till the very air ting-. led, then sank and was stilled' it the King's self left standing be- fore me, released and 'aware., What was gone, what remained? All to traverse 'tweet hope and de- spair. Death was past, life not conte: se he, waited. Awhile his right hand Held the brew, helped the eyes left too vacant forthwith to remand To their place what new •objects should enter: 't was Saul as be- fore, I looked up and dared gaze at those eyes, nor, was hurt any snore Than by slow pallid sunsets in ant ems', ye watch from •the shore, At their sad level gaze o'er the o- eeen—a sun's slow decline Over hills which, resolved in stern silence, o'er -lap and entwine Base with base to knit strength more intensely: so, arm folded arm O'er the chest whose slaw heaving:, subsided. (To be continued.) ERRANT EPISTLE DELIVERED AFTER SIXTEEN YEARS DELAY Winnipeg, Man., February 27th -- Sixteen years ago, J. A. Hood, train concluder for the Canadian Natiouat Railways at Winnipeg, sent a letter to an old friend; just recently the letter reached its destination, and Mr. Ilood received a reply to the letter he barely remembered wwit- ing. In the meantime, the errant. epistle travelled to the four corners; of the continent and braved the vag- ariesof wind and weather, tacked to a beam beneath freight car number "6000" ca the Fort Worth and Den- ver Railway. The letter was written when Mr, Hood was working out of Fort W'il liana as a train conductor for the. Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. Ile had spent the early clays of his rail- road career with the Fort Worth and Denver Railway, hut he had almost lost track of his odes friends with that road when, much to bis delight, he one day found car "6000" attacked to his train. He decided to with to the master car builder of the Fort Worth and Denver Railway, Henry Fletcher, and tell him that he had handled one of his box oars away up north where "Wren are men." Ho placed the letter in a heavy envelope, addressed it in ink, and nailed it be- neath the car. Number "6000" tra- velled on many roads and pounded over thousands of miles of steel rail before it wvas this winter discarded as "worn out" and sent to the shops for dismantling. Worlcniers discover- ed the letter 'but the address was completely erased by wind and rain, so they opened the envelope and found the name of the proper owner. , 1.1fr. Fletcher has since retired, but the Ietter was forwarded to bin. SELFISHNESS What makes selfishness such a deadly silt is that it is such a self, deceiving one. A thief knows that he is a thief, a liare that he has told falsehoods; but a selfish man does not lcnow that he is ,selfish; hence he never repents his sin,and it grows with his growth and strengthens with his strength.