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The Clinton News Record, 1932-09-22, Page 2AGE Rola News=ecoid` With whish is Incorporated THE NEW ERA Menne of Subscription—$2,00 per year in advance, to Canadian ad- dresses; $2,60 to the U.S. or 0th - :foreign countries, No paper discontinued ' until all arrears PS1d unless at the option of the publisher. The dote to which every cskibseription is paid is denoted on the label. 4iavertising Rates—Transient adver- tising '12e per count line for fleet iutas.ertion. Se for each subsequent teaertion. Beading counts 2 lines. "Smell advertisements, not to : ex - +reed' one inch, such as "Wanted", 'Lost," "Strayed," etc., irce»ted. epee for 38e, eaeli subsequent in - et rtion 16c.' Rates for display ad, 'rm.-Using made known on applica- Ormntunieations intended for pub- ;!irsaation must, as a guarantee of !god t clEfi, be accompanied by the name ,ei the writer, S. E. HALL, M. R. CLARK, Proprietor. Editor, H. T. RANCE Notary Public, Conveyancer .i istancial, Real Estate and Fire In- rourance Agent. Representing 14 Fire Ilnsuranee Companies.' Division Court Office, Clinton, sank Fingland, D.A., LL.B. Banister, Solicitor, Notary Publio Successor to W. Brydone, K.C. Gsimien Block — Clinton, Ont, CHARLES E. HALE Conveyancer, Notary Public, Commissioner, etc, 'Office over J. E. Hovey's Drug Store CLINTON, ONT. B. R. HIGGINS Notary Public, Conveyancer General Insurance, including Fire • Sickness and Accident, Aero - mobile, Huron and Erie Mortgage Corporation and Canada Trust Bonds lox 127, Clinton, P.U. Telephone 57. DR. J. C. GANDIER Office Hours: -1.30 to 3.30 p.m., 3.30 to 8.00 p.m. Sundays, 12.30 to 3.30 pm. Other hours by appointment only. Moe and Residence Victoria St. DR. FRED: G. THOMPSON Office and Residence: Ontario Street — Clinton, Ont. One door west oaf Anglian Church. Phone 172 lures Examined and Glasses Fitted R. PERCIVAL IIEARN Office and Residence: .Buren Street — Clinton, Ont, Phone 69 Mannerly occupied by the late Dr C. W. Thompson) Eyes ]Sxamined and Glasses Fitted DR. H. A. McINTYRE DENTIST Office over Canadian National Express, Clinton, Ont. Phone, Office, 21; House, 89. D. }L MCINNES CHIROPRACTOR Electro Therapist Masseur Office: Huron St. (Few doors west of Royal Bank). hours—Tues„ Thurs. and Sat., all ,Flay. Other hours try appointment Mensal' Office—Mon., Wed. and Fri forenoons. Seaforth Office -Mon., Wed. and Friday afternoons. Phone 207. GEORGE ELLIOTT Licensed Auctioneer for the, County of Huron Correspondence promptly answered, immediate arrangements can be made for Sales Date at The News -Record. Clinton, or by calling phone 103. Charges Moderate and Satisfactior Guaranteed THE McKILLOP MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company Head Office, Seaforth, Ont. President, J. Bennewies, Brodhag. .•en, vice-president, Janice Connelly, Goderich, Sec: treasurer, D. F. Mc- Gregor, Seaforth. Directors: Thomas Moylan, R. R. No. 5, Seaforth; .Tames ShoUldice Walton; Wm. Knox; Londesboro; Tdobt. Ferris, Blyth; John Pepper, Brucefield; A. Broadfoot, Seaforth; G. R. McCartney, Seaforth. Agents: W. J. Yeo, R.R. No, 3. Clinton; Jahn Murray, Seaforth; Jaynes Watt, Blyth; .Ed. Pinchley, Seaforth. Any money to be paid may be paid to the Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of Commerce, Seaforth, or at Calvin Cutt's Grocery, Goderich. Parties desiring to effect insur- ance or transact other business will le promptly attended to on applica. ties to any of the above officers, addressed to their respective post me - Bees. Losses inspected by the diree- tor who lives nearest the scene. "ANbDi $ AT�DNA ° A� �i TIME TABLE Trains will arrive at and depart from Clintpn as follows: Buffalo and Goderich Div. Going East, depart 7.08 a.m. Going East depart 8.00 p.m. Ging West, depart 12.07 pan. axoi'hg West, depart 9.39p.m.. London, Huron & Bruce Going South, 3.08, p.m., Going North 11.50 a.m. THE CLINTON NEWS. RECORD i4lZC0JeT selel 1(5 SYNOPSIS: Johnny ,Breen, 16'. years old; who has spent, all his life aboarda Hudson river tugboat ply- ing near New, York City, is made motherless. by an explosion which sinks the tug and tosses him into the river. He swims and crawls ashore where he starts a new and strange life. He is ignorant, cannot read, and knows nothing' of life in a great city. . Beaten and chased by toughs he: is rescued by a Je.vish family living off the Bowery in the rear of their second-hand clothing store.. Here be is,, openly courted by the young daughter. Breen fights bullies in self-deeense.. .. and seen is picked up by an unscrupulous manager who cheats him—until "Pug" Malone at the saloon -fight club,'attracted •to the boy, takes him under his wing. .. , On the other side of the picture are the wealthy Van Horns of Fifth Avenue. There is a Gilbert Van Horn, last of the .great family, a bachelor, in whose life is a hidden chapter with his mother's maid—who leaves the home—to be lost in the city life—, when Gilbert is accused.... It was reported tho maid married an old captain of a river tug ... rather thatl ieturn home—and was soon a moth- er. :.. Under Malone's guardianshin young Breen develops fast, ... "Pug" discovers the boy cannot read — 1,tarts him to night school and the world commences to open for John- ny Breen.... Malone, an old-timer, is backed in a health farm venture taking Breen with him. There they meet and come to know Gilbert Van Horn, John attracts Van Horn, who learns of Breen's mother, named Har-• riet. Learning John's desire for an engineering course at Columbia Uni- versity—he advances the honey John conies to know Josephine, Van Horn's ward, and during his school years falls in love with her. Gradu- ating as a Civil Engineer he gets a job with a great construction com- pany, working in New York. Breen has a rival for the love of Josephine, a rich man of the world by the name of Rantoul. But John wins out. Ile proposes and Josephine accepts. NOW GOON WITH THE STORY, .. Rantoul, on Iearning of Josephine's sudden engagement, 'found urgent business calling him abroad. He hail vast foreign interests, so she gather- ed from his letters, but he bore 110 ill-wdll; 11e was still her friend and never failed to ask after John. Post cards came to her from distant places, Cairo, Bombay, :Singapore Manila, Apparently he was going a- round the world. A pathetic word 0r two, a mere allusion, sometimes a 1y an uncouth and Unreasonable per- son. Night afters night he never, came up, never Caine near his -own rooms, and when Josephine did see him his eyes were heavy with weeri- Hess, his lids brilliant with the gloss of tunnel smoke. For some months past a change had dome over Josephine. (She re- sented the growing place the tunnel Was taking in the mind of her be; trotlted. Even gentle Marie Bash- kirtseff would not have tolerated such lapses of devotion, and Josephine was a sensitive high-strung girl. Even with the money she some day would have, on the death of Van Horn, life with John Breen might be more or less of a struggle. ' He would theist on working, would prob- ably want her to go to dreadful places, the Ankles, or the Sahara Desert; just what to do there she dii not know, but young engineers took their wives to outlandish countries Ranted told her of such things, quite casually, of course. She would havi to give as well as take. Josephine found more ocsalion tr find fault with John after his promo- tion. His 'heavy responsibilities as section engineer held him firmer and firmer in the grip of the tunnel. Ho was en the job hour after hour, day and night. and sleet with a telephone athis bedside. He was compelled. time and again, to break engage- ments, to hurry from her suddenly He felt restless and ill at ease when away iron] the tunnel. "How long will this tunnel soh keep going?" Van Horn asked him one evening. Re and John were in the library smoking for an hour that John forced himself to spare from the work, having had to phone Jose- phine that he could not aec0tllpan,' her to the Wintenrow lecture on "Art Life's Real Reward." She had al- ready gone with Gerrit Rantoul. A year will see the main work done, the tunnel holed through and the lining poured. We are in the man -killing stage now!" John paus- ed. "I've 'Leen watching you—and Joe° 'Thine." Van Horn continued slow- ly. "She's difficult, john, you know what I mean. Women demand a let. I know, John, I know." The older man looked kindly at the young en- gineer. "This work is making you, bet women don't see such things. not all of them, at least. Pug made your body what it is, the schools ♦e Y-" e sill another thing to do, and that le ie ,;s eo,...•ega c • i1 o picture of some tone pilgrim, gave have helped your mind, but this work, her the feeling of a deeper message. with its damnable demands, is forg, Then, after some months, there was ing character. God, boy, I envyvor the long silence that inigbt moan his the fight," Van Horn was tense. return via the Pacific. Josephine "But you have still another thing to found herself wondering when ho do, and that is to get and keep yoni -would return, She did not show thee- woman --your wire. It means a Int cards to John. He was blissfully un- to me, John, more than you know. aware of these romantic memories I wish a day could be set for your on the, part of Josephine, marriage.; Ray next June?" Meanwhile John's ability to earn "I'm ready,; Gil." :NMI 'laughed the respect of his men by the use or,and looked away. his fists had earned hi.m promotion. "Josephine can get her trousseau He had been placed is charge of Sec- in Paris, I've promised her that, tion One, the toughest job on the a- I'll speak to her, a run across will do queduct. Gerrit Rantoul returned from hie world tour. He arrived at the begin- ning of the season; all 0f fashionable New .Ymei, that is, the New York capable of paying attention to Sash - ion, was back in the city. He was finer, more considerate, more quietly correct, more distingue than ever. If Josephine had imagined hini tho least kbit difficult, the least bitag, grieved, her fears were entirely re. moved on his return. Even Gilbert Van Horn was glad to see him. Ran- toul was returning at an opportune time for Josephine. When John Breen .had appeared with his fist bandaged. Josephine "Ey the way." John remarked' ar shuddered a bit at the explanation. he was about to To, '.Josephine h "1 lifted a bum under the jaw." conning down to the job soma night next week. I've asked Rantoul . to bring her down. You've eeen the thing. I thought Rantoul might like to see it, too, ' He got me the first no harm, winter in the south of Prance, and back -here' early in the spring. How about that, john?" "Things may be easier :for me by that time, Gil," John visioned a winter of unintorrapted worlc. ITri would "get" the shaft and tunnel by that time; he would master the work and take his place with the men who counted, the bard true men who worked with him on the ,job. Never in his life had he expected, to have such slavish veneration for human be- ings as die- had for the men of the great rock pressure tunnel crawling beneath the unknowing people sof the city. Perhaps it was anything but accur- ate, or (heroic. Then too it was that Josephine found it more difficult to pit her therms against the insistence of the tunnel. John kept talking a, appointment. I'll never forget thee" beth an impossible •Mr. Wild, evident- "Good boy. It's something that will THTJRS., SEPT. 22, 1932 ; open her eyes,. Show her the whole works, John; good luck to you." And the night Josephine came John was in the thick of a big tunnel accident, Rantoul's gray'eushioned limousine drew up silently at the entrance to the shaft enclosure. Josephine Lam- bert on the arm of Rantoul; walked' gingerly 'toward the •shafthead. Wo- men were crowding about the head house; weeping, wailing women."' Children were cryiing. She knew the tunnel was a terrible place•. But this? It was horror! Something had gone wrong. Rantoul held her arm, and led her toward the office of the section engineer, Josephine trem- bled, 'You stay here," he said, seat- ing her before the desk in the de- serted office, brilliant with its chis- ters of lights above the drafting tab- les. "Something wrong below. I'll see:" He . was .superbly calm. "John! I hope he's not liurt' She clung to Rant'ou1's hand: "Yes. yes. go! Tell me soon. Go--" she cried, "Don't go!" She was shuddering— white. But he had slipped through the door. Her- frightened eyes took in the fittings of the little office. The place reeked of labor, and the untidness of working men. A garlie- smell from the locker room conveyed a sense of common. uncouth feeding, as she sniffed the gas of damp carbide spil- led while hastily filing tunnel lamps And without. it1 our. just beyond her sight she heard the echo of an Homeric struggle rising from the shaft. The screams of women carne to her. for the mangled bodies of men were be- ing hoisted out. Why did Rantoul stay so long? Was John killed? Why had ;she conte? Questions crowded unnn her. She was dizzy, nauseated The vile garlic odor was overpower- ing. She shuddered; sinking breath �.a loss in John's chair. Presently Rantoul returned, "Sohn is all right," he announced curtly, His eyes reflected a hent .of things be- low. "I saw him at the.shat head he went down again. ` Some poor; 'fellows were killed—an explosion—. God! what a hole!" Rantoul 11t a eork-tipped cigarette, snapped the gold case 'With 'a click, Suddenly he realized, that Josephine was ill. Ile helped her to her feet; supported her to the open 'air.' "We had better go." he said quietly,, and they walked dowr the little plankway outside of the enclosure to the waiting ear. John Breen,. coining' up• from the tunnel with the last. df the rescue party, ran to the office. A vague scent lingered over his desk, ,min Bled with the aroma of an Egyptian cigarette. 72a stepped to the outside I door and peered into the dark. DOM'n ,: by the curb was the limousine, ant' lie saw Josephine entering the car with Rantoul. She was distant, 'ex-, quisite, her hair glowing (beneath the light in the car. She held RantouPs hand a wan smile, was on her lips. They rolled silently away. John was utterly 'tired as he washed' the dirt and grease from hir hands, using a gray paste smelling of naphtha and filled with an abra- sive grit, a sort of mechanic's scout, ing pomade warranted to remove the most stubborn dirt. He was loosely jocular, his nerves were under scan' control. He suddenly associated hir cleansing with Josephine and burs' out laughing. John again saw the picture of Rantoul, not the engineer. but the financier (lie would always think' of him iso), handing Josephinc into the ear. John felt a bitter pang. The engineers had come up, bis as, sistants were cleaned and gone home, he had noted the events of the night in his official records and had again inspected the shaft. The watch war below in the tunnel, the din without had subsided for a while, the shaft was shut clown—until midnight. John did not go hone, he was too tired, tot many matters of moment centated about the shaft felt fe t a vague dread of the streets, he wanted to stay where he was sure of his foun- dations, his surroundings, his thoughts. In a dozen homes women and ehildren were sobbing, sobbing. A chastened Josephine was leav- ing for Paris and the south of France. A winter on the Riviera would do How Many Sales 'Transactions Do You Need? An Advertisement address- ed t© Our Local Retailers It is possible for a retailer to calculate the number of sales transaction; required by his business each day, week, month, year. Here's how the calculation can be made: 1. SUM up the estimated operating expenses for the year—the amounts required for rent, wages, deiiycry, supplies of various sorts, insurance, repairs, losses. Add, also, the net profit which one should have to reward his capital and enterprise. 2. Divide this total by the number of working days in the year ---say 305, in order to get the average daily cost of operating one's business. 3. Ascertain the amount of the average sales transactions. (The daily records of individ- ual sales, over a period of a month or so, will enable one to make this calculation). 4. Reckon the amount of gross profit earned on an average sales transaction -20-126- 30 per cent, 5. Divide the total average daily expenses by 'the profit on an average sales transaction. Thus one gets the number of sales transac- tions required daily to recover the costs of do- ing business. ILLUSTRATION Suppose that you find that your annual ex- penses, including a desired net profit, total $4,000, or, say, $13.11 per day; that your aver- her good. John had hada long ta11c with Van Horn. "I'm beating the tun- tier, Gil," John said simply. He look- ed so capable,, so well, John was con- fident, happy. : Ho was entirely too happy to be safe, especially with e woman like Josephine, who do -Mend- ed suffering front others. But Van horn looked bad, out of. condition, yellow. Pug Malone wonl.d have shuddered at the sight of him. The fact that Gerrit Rantoul had taken passage on the ,same steamer, again on urgent business, may have had something to do with the de, pression of Van Born. Still, when John and Rantoul stood together on the deck—John was seeing them oSS —,Van Horn compared them and smile ed. (Continued Next Week.) Con>ilnon Table Salt Often Helps'Stoilitcla Drink plenty of water' with ninth of salt, If bloated 'v with gas add a spoon o1 .Adlerika. This washes cant BOTH stomach and bowels and aids You of all sas. J. E. Hovey. Drusigst, C INVERT ✓ UR STNTO / , VE ' OLE C GL aJ • Shovelling fuel, shaking grates, and carrying ashes are now unnecessary labor. Women are tired of dirt and toil in the kitchen. 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MCFARLANE•' CLINTON, ONT. 5ieese.esfUezezi. age sales transaction is 56 cents, on which the average gross profit, at 25 per cent. would he 14 cents, Then your required number of sales transactions per day would he $13.11 divided by 14, or 94. Now, to assure an average of 94 sales transactions per day, rain or shine, will require you to be extraordinarily diligent in the matter of attracting customers. Your windows should be made aIIuring. Your service should be cour- teous, prompt and pleasing, so as to stake eus- tomers willing "repeaters." Your range of mer- chandise should be good, and your prices should be competitive. CI But these alone won't suffice to assure 94 sales transactiens every day, on an average. You'll have to do a whole lot of inviting. Week by week your invitations to buyers ought to be published in this newspaper. CI IP YOU FAII, TO ISSUE CORDIAL INVITA- TIONS, WEEK BY WEEK, THEN YOUR BUSINESS IS IN A STATE OF PERIL. N.B. The accompanying illustrative example makes it Blear that a retailer can cheek up his progress daily. Without a daily measuring of achievement against requirement no business management can be called safe, 8a