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The Clinton News Record, 1932-06-09, Page 3THURS., JUNE 9, 1932 TH7G CLINTON NEWS -RECORD KING4NEWS 114ti ttaat 'After paying debts and death dut- ies' there will notbe much of an es, tate left for the meek who inherit the eaerth, C=G—. A man writes a Patin journal that he remembers the first thresher 'which, lie says, was an' old-fashioned' Separator connected with an old- fashioned "harseepower" by tumbling rods. That wars not the first thresh- er. • in the bright lexicon of his youth there was apparently no such word as flail. The Bell Telephone Goa has reduc- ed its dividend rate. The •closing up of many brokerage houses must have cut into its revenues considerably to- gether" with the decreased business done by remaining houses. In flush times they were very free with long distance and so were their custom- ers. All the govermnents and the national' eaihvays are curbing the free use of telephones. A Minister at Ottawa declared that deparbnen- al officials would use long distance when a letter or a night letter• tele- gram would suffice. Officials are very apt to make profligate use of such services where obhers are pay- ing the bill. The tax on long dis- tance calls will still further reduce the Company's revenue, but while the shareholders will have to be content with seven dollars a share instead of eight, the public revenues will profit by the enforced savings and the in, come from the tax. CL—ra .A new planet has been discovered five million miles away from this earth and if it is wise it will keep its distance. •C:11:97 The American Methodist church has cut out the words "with all my worldly goods I thee endow" from the marriage service. They never had much meaning and they have less now. C~7r e Ian is a funny ieatere. Step giv- ing him something to which he neva er was entitled and you give hien •a grievance. CSCS You are getting old, says a writer, if you can remember things that happened in the nineteenth century. Yes, and you are getting senile if you can remember things that didn't. cele An English clergyman charged with immorality denies that he ever wore pyjomas. So that settles that. Freud said that wishes are the `bas- is of dreams. Test this oat on your e young pine -trees on the farm: of J. H. MacKinnon. The work was -di- rected by a forest ranger., nightmares, Multiply. John Aird Jr., by several hundred hundred thousands and you have some idea how many people were making 'Honey, a few years ago, merely, by standing beside the chan- nels of trade and industry with dip. pers—sore with buckets. What is news and what .determines the space'and display t« is given in, the newspapers? It is the public ap, petite, of course. The news editor is a man whose training snakes hint an adept in discovering just what the public appetite craves for arose. The worst piece of news that has broken for a long time, and from bis stand- point•the best•, was the Lindbergh. ease, It had all the elements that go to make what they :call a Inman interest story. It crowded the Sino- Japanese war off the front pages. But things other than tragedy tempt the appetite, too PP , The London Trines tells of an editor who emcee a story about a prominent banker. It was well-written and informative and he thought it would attract attention. But it didn't. A few days later he published a paragraph saying that, in that artiele,ho had overlo.aked one characteristic of the banker, viz.that he could wiggle his ears. That ar- rested attention. It went the rounds. Other newspapers commented upon it, Correspondents wrote in to tell of others, who had the same accom- plishment. A thing need not be important to have value. Trifles light as air may attract more general interest than important events. If an internation- al conference of statesmen and dip- lomats on disarmament agreed on a resolution of world-wide importance and if hi the discussion some of the delegates got into a free fight, that fight would take the headlines and most of the space while the resolu- tion would be dismissed at the end in a paragraph, Why? Because the public dearly loves a scrap., C=OQ Let a great statesman retake a silly, rash or extravagant observation and it will secure more publicity than all his wise, statesmanlike utterance. Let a elergyman say something that is considered heterodox and it will gain him more prominence than all his eloquent orthiadoxy. Not long ago, a professor (became well-known beeauso he said' that anyone who whistles is a moron. Sir William Osler was the world's greatest *Ahys, ician in his day and wrote valuable medical works, but most people re- member hint as the one who said that nen should be chlorof:•vned after sixty. Whether it is wise or silly, rash or deliberate, it is the un- usual that registers. Sir Robert Borden's Sound Advice Of all the many convocation speeches delivered during the past couple of weeks to graduating clas- ses in Canada, none contained so Much sound advice as the address given by Sir Robert Borden, Can- ada's weatime premier and elder statesman, to the students of Acadia 'University, in the lovely Town of Wblfville, in the Land of Evangeline, where the ex -premier was born. To students at Western, and graduates everywhere, his stirring and eloquent message is worth repeating. He said: o'Let not youth waste its wonderful Heritage. Be not neglectful or eare- less of opportunity, The ' goddess MOWS swiftly. You must seize her flowing locks ere she passes. As- suming an adequate intellectual e; quipment and essential moral stale( dards, I should say that courage, patience, persistence and the saving grace of humor are perhaps the most useful ones entering the lists of life. With these must go the quaff- ity, indeed the obsession of throw, ing one's utmost strength into the immediate task and purpose. Cour. age to scorn defeat, patience that can look forward to the long result. A sense of humor that enables one to laugh at failure—.(these are all impel- tent. To smile at defeat and to try again verges on victory. And do not forget that the most significant les, sons of life are to be found in ad: versity," Sir Robert's thoughts naturally turned to Canada andto public life. He emphasized that while the Do- minion had great . material wealth and immense natural resources, yet, aftei'' all, the story of Canada's worth among the nations will be written "in terms of her ideals, her institutions, her faith, her justice, the standards of public and private life, the devels opment of art, literature and scg ienee." Hp went on to say: "In any new wintry in rapid pro cess of ntaterial development, there is an almost inevitable tendency to a material outlook upon life. But in the highest sense the ideal and the spiritual are after all the truly ma- terial. So, let the youth of our country, going forth from its univer- sities, be mindful of the things of the spirit, holding high the torch of id- ealism, so that men may sometimes turn aside from the din of the fac- tory and the clash of the marketplace to behold and to realize." Sir Robert urged the necessity of young men taking an interest in public life, particularly in these days when our institutions are being chal- lenged as never before, On this score he said: "Ween in active life,( emphasized again and again this truth, that I would infinitely prefer to have any young ratan ally himself with the party to which I was opposed than to stand aside as a mere drone and take no active part in our public life. In these days of doubt and difficulty, of world-wide ,disorganization, in the aftermath of a war that almost wrecked our civilization, there are countries in which the institutions of democracy have become discredited and men have returned to 'autocratic or despotic rule, We are firmly con- fident that in the British Common- wealth there will be no such out- come." • All in all,. Sir Robert's address was one which should be given careful thought by every College graduate in Canada.HLondon Free Tress. DOINGS IN THE SCOUT WORLD Cape Breton Scouts Plant Trees As. a Saturday good turn in May Scouts of North ,Spdney and Flor- ence troops, N•S planted 4,000 Assistant Scoutmaster One Spot Edward One .o Spot, fca'merly of the olcl 13th (Killarney) Calgary Troop, is an A.S.M.-of the new Sarcee, In elian Reserve .Scout Troop. A.S.M.' One Spot is one of the first Indians in the Canadian West to hold •ac A. S.M.'s Warrant. ct Sir Michael Sadler on Scouting Addressing a recent sheeting of Scouts and Guides , at Garbed, Sir Michael Sadler, llfaster of Univer-` city College, • Oxford, declared that "In the centuries to eome'people will see in the Boy Scout and Girl Guide 'Movements the great, educa- tional invention of the 20th Cote tury" A Duck ,Scramble For Boys A job that any other Scout Troop would gladly have shared fell,ta'the 4th (Elks' s Own) Calgary Troop when they were called upon by the keeper of the Calgary Zoo to help catch and move the water fowl to new quarters on St. George's Island. The birds lost a few feathers, and the Scouts gained a few pecks and sera ch. t es but the jab cb was done. •011 An Island For 13. Cf, Scants An island in Williams. Lake, B.C.. has been presented by the village commissioners to tIte 1st Williams Lake Scottt Troop, as a country home and camp site until needed by the village. A ,large boat was given by Mr. Ted Gibbon. Parents and the general public were invited to the christening of the boat and the flag - raising on the island.. Scouts to Watch Forestation Plots The first Saturday of May saw the Scout troops of St. Lawrence County, Ontario, out on a tree -planting bee at Canip Vigor, on the St. Lawrence river. Each troop was given 250 trees and a quarter -acre in which to plant them. The plots are narked and the troops will -watch the growth of their various plantings. POINTED PARAGRAPHS Where the heart is, the lungs are close by. The baseball diamond may be flaw- less, but the players seldom are. The size of the lion's share depends upon the capacity of the lion. As a eut'e for love the want of faith is a better remedy than the faith cure. Economy is the name of a Penn, slyvania town—but, of course, it el not. After reading the first chapter of a novel a wninan is likely to jump to the conclusion. Leap before you look •— and then look foolish. A wild steer is dangernus on either lake or land. When a man is compelled to pawn his watch it changes hands. Itnptrrtunity is simply holding on till von get what you want. When sotiety throws people over- board they are not in the swim. It's always easy to interest a man in a good money -making scheme. Give Cheerfully with one hand and you will gather abundantly with two. When a rioh man suddenly be- comes lion., or a .rich man surldenl?t becomes rich, his true character crops out. The wisdom of the owl is all in bis eye.' Fainters snake a lot of money far grain speculators. The hold-up man does brant work with a sandbag. Some jokes are solemn enough tc make an undertaker laugh. On the ocean of life many a womar sails under false colors. A coward manages to dodge a lot of things that are headed his way. Blessed is the silent man for he is able to keep the lie on his ignorance, When a woman meets a man after her own heart, the chances are that he isn't, Every time the average man makes a good guess he has a lot to say about his superior judgment, If there is nothing the matter with the baby today its mother can Worry because there may be to- morrow. ACCIDENTS AND COMPENSATION There were 3,285 accidents report- ed to 'the Workmen's' Compensation Board during the month of May, as compared • with 3,518 , during April, and 4,329. during 14y a year ago. The total cages number 18, as against 23 in April and 35 lash May. 'The total benefits trearded amount- ed to $420,351.61, of which $$354,708,' 18 was for compensation and $71, 643.43 for medical aid as coinpared with $438,164.75 awarded in April, and $403,206.37 in .May a year ago. The advertisements bring you news of better things to have and easier Ways to live. mor ty News ppenf gs in the Count]! and District. BLYTH: The June meeting 'of the Women's Institute wets held'in Mem- orial Hall Thursday afternoon. The. new president, Mrs. James :Scott, was in the chair and gave a few time, ly remarks. Several matters of abuse Hess were arranged, among thein be- ing plans for the meeting to be held on June 20, when-Glinton.,and Lon desboro Institutes will be present, to. b addre'sser] by the speaker from the department. In a few well-chosen words Mrs. R. Newcomb voiced the sentiments ef the members of the branch when she paid tribute to the splendid service rendered to the society by the retiring president, Mrs. R. Richhiond. A duet was nice ly given by Mks. W. Gibson and Mrs, L. Scrimgeour, and ae reading was given by Mrs; Patterson. -A very in- structive paper on "Vegetables and their food value," was given by Mrs. F. Oster. A tasty lunch was served by the group in charge: Mrs. P. J: Kelly, Mrs. R. Richmond, Mrs. E. C. Johnston andr s on ,Mrs. Tames s Sc oft. It included a rhubartb pie contest. The pies were judged , by Mrs. Chellow Mrs. McGee and Mrs. W. Mills, and very much enjoyed, with the lunch following the judging. •GODERICH: This harbor will be one of the ports of call of the Erie, Penn., Chamber of Commerce' an- nual excusion late in June. The Am- erican city has been assured that a royal welcome awaits the excursion- fists, also that the harbor here is quite capable of accommodating their steamers, GO'DERIOII: Protest was heard' from Councilor Hmnber at the last council meeting ,against . plowing vacant lots for indigents on which to. plant potatoes, and other vege- tables, but C9uncil upheld Councilor Brown, relief chairman, and passed the bills. GODE.RIOTI: Two local hotel, keepers protested against private citizens being allowed to sell accom- modation , to travelersand tourists without paying license or, business tax. The complaint was referred to a committee. . DUNGANNON': At a community gathering in thearish hall Dun, P , ganion, a fitting tribute Was paidto the heroic deed performed en the evening of September 12th, 1931, by a local young man, Benson Park, who saved Neil Haines from drowning in the mill race at the chopping mill of Case Black en the Nine Mile Riv- er. The award, which was the gift of the Royal Biimane Association in recognition of the performance of this heroic action, was in the forret of an honorary testimonial, about 14 by 16 inches in size, and beautifully engraved. Cl•IARGE AGAINST SI3ERIFF M'ID- DLETON FOR PARKING IN COURT HOUSE SQUARE WITHDRAWN The action against Sheriff C. G, Middleton for parking his autamob- ile inCourthouse Park, Goderich, in contravention of a town bylaw, has been withdrawn, it was announced by Magistrate Reid on Saturday morn- ing. No explanations cr reasons were given. The summons was re- turnable at 11 a.m. and a consider able crowd had gathered outside the police court chambers. Town Sol icitor D. R. Nairn had a ccnsulta tion with the magistrate in his pri vate office and it was after this that the announcement of withdraw al was made. "IIas there been an agreement reached on the perking issue?" the magistrate was asked. "I don't know anything about that," he replied. "The charge was 'withdrawn at the request of the in- formant." On Friday night the Town Coun- cil went into committee of the whole excluding the press. to discuss its clash with the sheriff. As a rose the town solicitor was instructed tc withdraw the charge. In open Coun•• oil Councilor Humber had urged re potting the matter to the attorney. general. Ile spoke quite heatedly and et some length. After the cam- mittee huddle he asked that he, be not repartee. Srturday morning there were no cars in the bark, That of the sheriff -and ether officials were park ed outside. It was not stated who, if any, had swallowed their dignity. "Had they (the Town Council) asked us decently at the start, we would have complied," said one of- ficial, • Judge Costello removed his car the day the "no parking" signs were erected, The public was disappoint- ed and somewhat indignant over the ominius bush which fell over police court, but peace is a precious thing, BLIJE WATER HIGHWAY ASSOCIATION TO FUNCTION Although the future of the Blue Water highway has hung in the bal- ance for several months, members of the organization have decided to car- ry on for another year and advertis- ing and publicity plans will be rush) ed to completion as soon as possible. W. D. Ferguson, secretary of the as- sociation, said the rather day. The Blue Water route this year will undergo a slight change. It will originate at Sarnia and take in towns and summer resorts along Lake Harron, including Grand Bend, Bayfield, Goderich, Kincardine and Southampton, and instead of follow- ing the present route to Owen Sound and Georgian Bay towns it will con- tinue on to 'Marton, Liens ]:lead and Tobermory. The exclusion of Owen Sound from the Bine Water bighway route Came. as a result d that city's desire to Sever its connection with the, also- dation. • OVER HALF BILLION IN PAPER MILLS A total of $645,000,000- is invested in Canadian pulp and paper mills and they produced pulp and paper valued at more that} $244,000,000, in 1929,' adding $147,900,000 to the cost of the raw material used. They gave employment during the entire working year to more than 83,000 'people and distributed over $80,000,- 000 in payroll. WHERE 97,000 MEN FIND 'JOBS Operations in the woods in Canada give employment, for a part of the year at least, to more than 97,000 men, who receive more than $80,000,- 000 a year in salaries, wages and payments far contract logging. These eperatione make an annual chain on our forests, for use alone of the e- quivalent of more than three billion cubic feet of standing timber valved at $220,000,000. CHINA AND JAPAN 1N• FORESTRY The greatest possible contrast ex- ists between China and Japan in their handling of the forest re- sources. Chitty has left all initiative to the private individual, with the re- sult that 1n vast regions there is hardly a stick of timber available. Furthermore, the removal of the trees from the mountain slopes has caused disastrous floods and destruc- ' tion of human life. Japan, on the other hand, bas long sinee-set her • forest house in order, and has an up to date and effective scheme of free est management to make timber crops perpetual. Upon taking over Berea. Japan instituted reforestation to such purpose that already two mil- lion acres have been planted with thriving tree life. NEW LAND -SEA ROUTE AIDS OLD FRIENDSHIP 14Iuch additional amity between the New England States and the Mari- time Provinces is expected to result from special two-week summer holl- i day trips announced by the Canadian National System 1 I The route will lead front 'Boston by Canadian National Steamship' { liner to Saint John, from Saint John by Canadian National train to Moncton, Truro and Halifax, from IHalifax by the sante steamer back to iBoston. Vacatimiers front the Maritime Provinces may reverse the order and proceed by liner froth IlaIifax to Boston, and raven either by rail to Halifax or by liner to Saint John and thence by rail to Halifax. CANADA (RECEIVES VARIETY OF WEST INDIES NATURE PRODUCTS A pecularity of the fruit and vege- table crops of Bermuda and the West Indies are their successive dates of maturity. • The tomato crop of the Bahamas in the western group of the West Indies, Islands is about done for the season, but tomatoes, from islands in the eastern group, Mont- serrat, Antigua and St. Vincent, will continue to arrive. By this time Bermuda • will commence sjlipping Manatees and it. is expected that island will have a geed crop. .Bermuda is now malting heavy shipments of carrots and heavy shipments of cabbage and beets are also expected. The 'Ber- muda onion crop is estimated at 300 000 crates, an increase of 50 pear cent over last year, and the island Will also have about 40,000 crates of celery, the first arrivals of which arrived early in' May, The Jamaican orange , season ' is about over but grapefruit is still arriving from there and also from, Trinidad and Dominica. The grapefruit is of the finest quality and from reports is selling, well: PAGE: MOTHER OP ARCHITECTURE ' Historians of architecture tell us that man's first building efforts Were Pot the :purpose of protecting himself from the weather. lie required ur q ed shelter from the angry elements, and hence "the inclemency of the seasons was the mother of .ar- chitecture." In his primitiveness he took the nests of birds and the laies of beasts as his model, and the ear- liest but was probably a mere arlbour of twigs, afterwards covered with mud. Then huts were built of bran ekes of treesandcovered with turf. And there is every reason to suppose that the man who built shelters of this kind were agriculturists hp oc- cupation. The hunter on the other hand preferred a, cave -dwelling, which protected hint better front the at- tacks of his fellows or wild animals, while the shepherds who led a nom- adic or wandering life, as some of thein do today in Central Asia, nab - 'neatly .devised tents. EGYPT'S GREAT QUEEN A woman who once ruled a mighty empire, exercising sway over the des- tinies of ancient Egypt; has now been revealed . as the owner of the fourth Pyramid at Giza. This wo- man ruler must have been an extra, ordinary powerful queen, for she bears the titles of "King of Upper and Lower Egypt," " Mother of the King of Upper and Lower Egypt," "Daughter of the 'God, i.e., the Ring.". This is the first known instance of a queen's Pyramid standing separately from that of her royal husband—it is built upon a solitary rock, shaped to forth its core—and no other queen of the old kingdom has been found with the title "King of Upper and Lower Egypt." The eastern and northern sides of the Pyramid are cut in regular steps, and the tomb measures at its base about 150 feet on each side. In the south-east face a large chamber was tut in the rock. and the entrance to it has jambs el single blocks of granite nearly 10 feet high. FATTENING BROILERS (.Experimental Farms Note) In producing milk fed broilers it has been customary to add quite a large proportion of meat meal to the mash as well as using skim -milk as a - ntixer in order to supply sufficient animal feeds for tate maintenance of growth and at the same time supply a ration high in carbohydrates for fattening purposes. Since the addi- tion of this meat meal is costly its elimination from the ration would be highly desirable as long as equally good resuls could be obtained without it. A test was carried on at the Poultry Division, Central Experi- mental Farm, eonparieg two rations one of which contained meat meal and the other cereal feeds only, for fattening broilers. Equal parts of ground wheat, ground oats and groncl barley made up. the cereal ration with tate addition of 10 per cent of neat meal to the one ration. Both were fed three times daily us ing sour skim -milk and mixing' emelt reed one feeding in advance. Two lots of chickens seven weeks of age were used of thnty-seven and thirty- six birds each. These birds were) banded and •weighed individually tri granas at the beginning, at the end of the first week and at the 'end of the experiment (14 days). The av- erage gain for the two lots was.prao•, tically identical, the difference being' only one 'tenth of art ounce per bind which was quite insignificant. The•' lode malting this slightly .greater gain consumed a little more feed cense- fluently it required exactly the seine' amount of feed to produce one ounce• of gain upon bath rations. It would .. appear unnecessary, therefore, to use anything other thaw skim -milk and ground grains to ob- tain good gains in fattening, and the• addition of a quantity of meat meal' is obviously unnecessary and a waste of costly feed. Attention is drawn to the simplicity of the radion used and to the fact that all three grains are commonly,'home grown.. This ration also produces a white• flesh which demands a premium upon.. Canadian markets: 14E1'0 Only 6 and up TORONTO 30 ALASKA and return Your travel budget will take you further then ever before . . with rates this year at econ- omy levels: That long dreamed of ', trip to Alaska, for in- stance, costs stance, costs surprisingly little. Reduced fares for your rail trip through Rocky Mountain scenic wonders to Vancouver, Victoria, Prince Rupert or Seattle and by boar through the mountain - guarded Inside Passage to Skegway where the Trail of '98 re -lives its sontauce. CANA ATI T -a AL "Yes -we're bot . feeling .fie Low evening rases on station -to -sta- tion calls begin 7.00 pan. Still lower night rates. at 8.3b pan. Joe Thompson and his wife were glad when Gwen finished Business College and got a good position in the city. But Gwen was the last of the family and the house was pretty lonely. Then they found they could call her on Long Distance telephone for as little as 30_ cents. So now, every Fri- day evening, Gwen waits for their call and the weekly talks make then' all feel better. Long Distance is easy to use, depend- able, and surprisingly inexpensive.