The Clinton News Record, 1933-11-02, Page 3'THURS., NOV. 2, 1933
Robbery under arms is generally
successful but the robbers are gener-
ally caught sooner or later. Burg -
lens unarmed would seldom attempt
a daylight robbery. That revolver
or sawed-off shot gun is a requisite
to the robbery and the get -away. If
it were impassible to obtain such a
weapon, many a young man would
be saved from becoming a jail -bird.
War's and minor •crimes would be
fewer if every government controlled
the manufacture and sale of arms-
meets, including smaf arms, within
the confines of its own country.
Caesarian*
A. seventeen -year-old girl in New
York committed suicide because her
companions called her "Fatty." She
weighed two hundred pounds and
was sensitive about it. There are
some who do not mind being called
Fatty or Shorty or Skinny. There
are others who do but unfortunately
young people do not diseriminatei
and some would even use a nickname
because they know it hurts -- not
realizing perhaps how terribly it
hurts.
In connection with the new Ger-
man peril Neville Chamberlain used
the words of Douglas Haig, "No news
is ever as good or bad as it seemed at
first." There is a great deal of
truth in the late Field Marshal's ob-
servation. Japan left the League of
Nations because it was fighting and
wanted to continue fighting, but
Germany's withdrawal was probably
dictated by political exigencies at
home. The defection did not cause
as much harm as expected. Neither
will the defection of Germany. We
are disposed to think all the more of
the League when we see truculent
nations leaving it and are disposed to
think also that they would the bet-
ter have advanced their interest by
remaining.
StSitS:mt
If Roosevelt does something to
curb the salaries paid to the stars,
midgets, platinum blondes and infant
prodigies of the film world he will be
doing a service to movie fans. In that
industry as in all others talent and
genius would not be discouraged if
the decree went forth that no salary
in the United States should exceed
that of the President. Any man who
has the power to scale down their
salaries should surely draw a larges
one than they.
Evidence being produced by Mr.
Pecora show that the President of
the Chase National Bank drew a mil-
lion and a half during the past five
years when the bank itself was los-
ing heavily. Bonuses were voted him
by directors whom he had favored.
In the crazy days before '29 execu,
tives of large corporations were're-
ceiving huge bonuses as well as
large salaries. .That was reprehen-
sible enough when they were making
large profits, but it is nothing less
than criminal now, and Mr. •Roosevelt
will do the state some service if he
finds a way to curb the rapacity of
those pirates.
It is not to be supposed that men
drawing such large salaries and bon-
uses devote more time and attention
to their work. We venture to say
that the larger the remuneration the
more time they spend on the golf
links.
There never was any real ground
for the fear that competitors would
try to steal the manager if he were
not paid a princely salary. That fear
was kept alive by the fallacy that
there were supermen in this world.
Those supermen in the crisis toppled
from the pedestals.
When Chas. M. Hays became presi-
dent of the Grand Trunk railways he
caused placards to be posted up it
the offices which declared in big
black letters that "No Man is Indis-
pensible; Therefore Don't Get Gay."
He was no superman himself and he
knew there were none other.
But the myth grew. Some became
supermen by using printers ink and
a press agent and finally some be-
came supermen merely because the
public knew they were in receipt of
six -figure salaries, and therefore
must be great men. But they were
only the Kruegers of matches, the
Stinneses of steel, the Insults of
power, the Mitchells and Harrimans
of banks—weighed in the balance
and found wanting,
Some one suggests' there would be
fewer hold .ups in banks if the front
windows were lower so that passers-
by could see what was going on. But
that's the trouble. They could sec
not only the bandits but also the fel-
lows who are not bandits at all, but
merely business men having a chat
with the manager about loans or
overdrafts.
d
"No matter how, the budget must
be balanced," says a Cabinet minis-
ter.
The ends would justify the means,
And life would be quite sweet
If we'd the means to back the
schemes
1 To make the ends to meet.
What Clinton wasDoing in The Gay Nineties
DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED DURING TN's LAST DP
.e.
OF THE OLD CENTURY?
From The News -Record, Nov. 2nd, wedding suit ready in time and the
1892: , ' expectant bridegroom shot himself.
A citizen who noticed the remarks ... A Clinton young man says he
of The News -Record in Last week's Is- would have shot the tailor if any
sue about town waterworks says it shooting had to be done.
is a capital idea. Mr. A. D. Forrester has purchased
the McAlister farm, 127 acres, for
$8,500, the latter taking the form-
er's town residence at $1,500.
emmeremine
From The New Era, Nov. 3rd, 1893:
Mr. David Cantelon, Jr., took
charge of the express business here
during the absence of Mr. Cuning-
hame in Chicago.
The wife of Mr W. G. Smyth,
who has .been ailing for, some time
died on Saturday last. Deceased
leaves two children. She was a
member of Willis church.' Her re-
mains were taken to Kirkton for
interment.
The following are the officers el-
ect for Clinton Lodge I.O,G.T. for
the ensuing term: Chief Templar,
Wesley Moore; Past Chief, R. Chow -
en; Vice Templar, Miss E. Tebbutt;
Chaplain, J. Houston; Treasurer,
Miss Ida Carter; Ree. -Secretary, Mr.
Israel; Fin. -Secretary, Miss Whitely;
Marshal, Mr. Rattray; 1.5., Miss
Gibbings; 0.5,, Mr. •Hill; Organist
Miss Milier.
Recently a gentleman in Toronto
offered, in connection with the Uni-
versity, a prize of $70 for the best
essay on "Money." Robert Coats
Jr., (son of Mr. R. Costs of town)
was one of the many competitors for
the prize. His paper and one other
were considered the best and as they
were unable to decide which was the
best, the money was divided evenly
A Pittsburg,. Pa., young man was between them, .
to have been married •one day last Clinton has an expert lady taxider.
'Week. His tailor did not have lusmist in the person of Mrs. Seale,
Apply picking, packing and ship-
ping will bb about would up in Hu-
ron county the latter part of next
week. The yield this year and the
demand has been the means of cir-
culating an enormous amount of
money.
Mr. John Leslie is busy building
cutters and other outfits forthe win-
ter season.
Rev. Mr. Gray, for the last six
years treasurer of the superannua-
tion fund of the Methodist church,
died very suddenly in his office in
the book rooms, Toronto, on Satur-
day morning . Seven or eight
years ago he was stationed in Clin-
ton and many here have loving re-
membrances of him.
Mr. John Johnston, Rattenbury
street, attended the shooting match
at Blyth last week and increased his
poultry supply as the result of good
shooting.
Coverley, the young Toronto ath-
lete, who has just walked over Ni-
agara Falls on a wire cable, is go -
ling to repeat the performance next
'Billy with a newspaperman on his
back. 'We know one newspaperman
who will not be on his back about
that time.
The New Orange Hall: The com-
mittee have rented the new hall in
the MacKay Block over Rumball's
jewellery store and will take posses-
sion on December l.st
paranommersommemom Mos.
THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
wife of Itir. James Seale of the mar-
ble nrorks.
Some very singular things happen
in this world and the following is
one of them: Mr. Andrew MaGarva:
son of Mr. John McGarva of this
town, is a sealer, with headquarters
at Victoria, B.C. Last summer the
vessel on which he is engaged put in-
to one of the small Hiawain Islands
for supplies. Mr. MdGarve conclud-
ed to go ashore while the vessel was
waiting and as he was walking about
the place he was more than aston-
ished and pleased to meet in that
out-of-the-way spot, another Clinton
boy, Mr. Alex. Buchanan, son of Mr.
Donald Buhanan, who !s running a
saw mill and sugar plantation there.
On Friday evening Iast there war
a large attendanee of delegates from
the various churches at the Temper-
ance hall for the purpose of farming
a local organization to look after
the plebesite vote . . . It was decid-
ed to select an executive to consist
of president, sec. -treasurer, and a
chairman for each ward, the latter
to appoint three persons in each
ward. Mr. J. Houston was elected
president; Mr. McKee secretary and
Mr. G. Swallow, treasurer. Ward
Chairman; St. Andrews: H. Foster;
St. James, Jas. Scott; St. John's,
James MoMath; St. George's, R.
Holmes.
For some time the Baptists have
b'een troubled by someone who per-
sisted in breaking into the basement
of the church and making free with
articles left there. A couple of
youths were detected in the act the
other day and let off with a reprim-
mand.
We are very sorry to hear of the
death of John E. Davis of Davis bro-
thers of the Mitchell Advocate.
essitss
WHEN THE PRESENT CENTURY
WAS YOUNG
From The News -Record, Nov. 5th,
1908:
At a meeting of the local Horti-
cultural Society yesterday Capt. Mc.
Taggart, Assessor Cottle and Mr. J.
Cuninghame, secretary of the Pub-
lic school board, were appointed dele-
gates to attend the meeting of the
Horticultural Association to be held
in Toronto next Tuesday and Wed-
nesday.
The contract for building the ce-
ment walls of the bowling alley was,
awarded to Mr. Archie Cousins, who
puts his big mixer to work today.
An Hospitable Pair:—Mr. ant
Mrs. W. Jackson entertained the
members of the Bowling Club last
evening at their residence .... Dur-
ing the evening prizes were distribu,
teed to the winning rinks in the fin-
al tournament of the season as fol,
lows: Trophy---'lst—R. Graham, H.
Wiltse, John Harland, 3. B. Hoover,
skip. 2nd—C. J. Wallis, A. Strome,
J. Hunter, W. J. Stevenson, skip.
Assciciation-1st—D. M•CCorv,+ie, J{oe
Rattenbury, J. Nediger, Dr. Agnew
skip. 3rd—Geo.' Barge, J. Weiss,
Dr. Shaw, W. P. Spaulding, skip.
Consolation-1st—,W. Graham, J.
Hamilton, B. J. Gibbings, A. D. For-
rester, skip. 2nd—J. L. Courticei
W. J. Harland, John Wiseman, C. E.
Dowding, skip.
Blyth—Nov. 4th—.A. terrible acci-
dent occurred at a C. P. R. crossing
m Hullett township about three miles
from here this morning. While Mrs.
Robt. Scott and her two sons, one
twelve arid the other fourteen years
of age, were driving to town, an en-
gine and tender running Tight to
Goderich, caught them and killed
Mrs. Scott and one boy instantly.
The other boy lived a few minutes.
The horse escaped.
Goderich Township:—Fred Rath-
welI and Harry Elwood attend the
Bayfield line school. They are a
lively and sturdy pair of lads ... and
are staunch Tories. They were in
great glee over the election of their
friend Mr. Lewis, and on going to
School next morning they hoisted
the Union Jack. But as it happens
the teacher is on the other side of
polities and in anger she pulled dOwn•
the flag and trounced the lads so
severely as to raise blisters. "That
is what I got for standing up for
Lewis," said ,Little Fred as he show-
ed his marked hands.
assresszere
From The New Era, Nov. 5th, 1908:.
The first taste of winter was ex;
perienced on Friday by the first fall
of snow for the season.
Mr. Holmes, druggist, has instal-
led a new system of lighting in his
store.
The rooms over • Twitchell's store
have been rented by the Clinton Dra-
matic Club and rehearsals 'will begin
this week. Richard Hill will be put
on if possible before the holidays
and the following is the cast:
Duke of Clouster: E. J. Howard.
Henry VI: R. A. Downs.
Prince of Wales: W. H. Ford.
Duke of York F. 0. Ford.
Earl of Richmond: Bert Kerr.
Duke of Buckingham: F. A. Axon.
Duke of Norfolk: W. S. Harland.
Tressel: W. E. Grundy.
Lord Stanley: J. McLeod.
Gatesby: A. Conliff.
Ratcliff: H. Eeuston.
Earl of Oxford: W. G. Moffatt.
Blunt: W. W. Nimmens,
Lieut. of the Tower: J. A. Con -tan,
tine.
Tirrill: W. L. Johnson.
Lord Mayor: • G. W. Sheeley.
Queen Elizabeth: Miss Jennie
Shannori.
Lady Anne; Miss ,Grade Cleft'
Duchess of York: Pearl Shannon.
SKUNK VISITS THEATRE
This happtened, at Oakville, Ont.
Without troubling to buy a ticket or
ask permission, a little black visitor
With three, white stripes down her
back strolled leisurely into the Greg-
ory Theatre one evening.Obviously
on pleasure bent, she nonchalantly
ambled past the usher on duty and
down the aisle. All went well while
oft music lulled her ladyship into
a sense of security, but when huge
figures flashing on -a screen, talked
in angry tones, the little visitor be-
came thoroughly alarmed and used
her sole defensive 'weapon with tel-
ling effect. Men, women and ehil-
dren jammed the exits, gasping for
breath. The figures on the silver
screen flickered and died as the op-
erator left his projector for a less
odiferous locality, and the little black
visitor was left' alone in the dark;
victorious. Thorousthly pleased with
herself, Mrs. Skunk ambled to the
nearest exit and vanished in the
dark.---+W'ingham Advance -Times.
WE CAN SAY WHAT WE PLEASE
There is one thing to be said for
our present capitalist system—maybe
theme are a thousand things, but this
one especially, which should affect
liberals—and it is that under our
present slavish system everybody is
permitted to say what he likes , so
long, of course, as he observes es-
tablished decencies. There is a kind
of prosperity in Italy, a kind of hope
and fiery enthusiasm in Germany
and a kind of freedom in Russia
that we do not enjoy. But there is a
liberty of expression elsewhere which
is denied and suppressed in these
countries. For instance, anyone can
go to a Toronto public library ane.
read Das Kapital, the bible of the
Communists. He can have access to
whatever Lenin or Trotsky or Mus-
solini or Hitler ever wrote or said.
Free Utterance
This is nominally a Christian coun-
try but periodicals that bitterly and
persistently assail Christianity are
to be had at the news stands. We
should be astonished if the works of
Paine and Ingersoll are not to be
found in the public libraries. There
is in any event, no trouble in buying
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EACH YEAR Canada sends thirty million' dollarsto a foreign
country for domestic coal alone—the type of coal we use
in our homes. And yet we can have ALBERTA COAL, mined in
Canada ---a longer burning and cleaner fuel than the imported
product—for less money. Why not save dollars on your coal bill
and at the same time help keep Canadian mine workers employed.
Try ALBERTA COAL and be convinced of its heating qualities.
Alberta 'Trade Commissioner's Branch - 200 Bay Street, Toren}o
Telephone your local dealer, NOW !
them. Every year there, issue from
British and American printing pres-
ses books which attack almost every,
conventional belief and generally ac-
cepted theory, political, religious, ec-
onomic or social. The powerful Cath-
olic church, opposes birth control, but
there is a spate of birth control lit-
erature. The church itself is attack,
ed, All churches are attacked. Ev-
erything is attacked derided and
found to be no goon,
Our Most Precious Treasure
And we give it as our opinion that
there is no other liberty in the world
to be compared with this liberty of
free expression. Compared with it
all others are fakes. The Russiar
liberty seems to be a liberty to spit
on a priest and lick the boots of a
Connnunist, and the general freedom
of all to be poor and wretched to-
gether. It is a kind of liberty that
people who were recently slaves
would enjoy. But it is a long time
since we were slaves. We have foil -
gotten the state of slavery, and do
not crave the draught that takes a.
way the taste. This freedom which
we own is the most precious thing
we do own as an English speaking
race, not forgetting the works of
Shakespeare or Westminster Abbey.
--Published by the Consumers' Gas
Company.—Short 4th Col. in Mail
and Empire.
THE MISER
0 dear Lord, I cannot die
And leaves my treasures. No, not Il
Just one moment Iet me wait
To kiss the rose at the garden gate!
Curtsey to the Creeping grass;
Nod to the clover as I pass;
Salute the vagabonding greeze;
Bid good-bye to my darling trees.
I'll gather up the spangled threads
The spider intricately spreads
In gauzy webs upon the lawn,
To hold the silver of the dawn.
I'll stoop to taste a drop of dew;
My thirsty heart with rain imbue,
I'll slip a moonbeam in my pocket,
And hide the hoar -frost in a locket,
See, dancing shadows here and there,
Tangled with sunlight, set a snare
To catch my footsteps. Fair and wet
By woodsy springs with rootlets set
The fern weeps for me. In the pool
The water -lilies, white and cool,
Wait for my hand. A golden stair
Would be for me so cold and bare.
I need the green moss for my feet;
A hollow tree for my retreat.
Could the brown earth but cradle me,
Sweet and deep would my sleeping be
Dear my Lord, I cannot die
And leave my stars upon the sky.
In that far shining citadel,
Celestial joys may these excel.
But will moonflowers be blowing late,
And roses climb at heaven's gate?
--Ethel McKenzie in "Secret Snow,"
OLD RAILWAY CARS, LIKE OLD
SOLDIERS, NEVER DIE
Old railway ears, like old soldiers,.
"never die;" they do not even "fade.
away". The discovery of a 61 -Tear -
old Pullman sleeping ear doing
duty as a general storehouse on the
western shore of Hudson Bay is
proof of this.
Records show that this hoary Pull-
man was built in August 1872, when
it was named the "Conway." It ran
on the old Eastern Railroad of Mass-
achusetts until 1880. Then it was -
remodelled and re-christined "Capit-
ano." In its new state it boasted a
barber shop and a bath annex. In
1904, "Capitano" was sold privately
and at a later date again passed
through a christening ceremony, this
time being named "Marlborough." Its
ways then were devious, until it man-
aged to find its way into Canada
whore it got into the hands of a pri-
vate railroad contractor. Ultimate-
ly, it was turned over to the Cana-
dian National Railways and used as
the business car of the chief engin-
eer engaged in the reconstruction of
the Hudson Bay line.
Today "Marlborough," alias "Gall-
itano,"
Gapitano," alias "Conway" is a merc
shell of its former self, having lost'
its barber's chair and bathroom, but
in its present capacity continues to•
prove of sterling worth.
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Local net
ilers
They Owe ' . ou
Sales Assistance
You. know thoroughly 'well that you have
power, in your store, to influence the decision
of your customers in regard to what they buy
from you. Your customers rely on you to give
them products which, in use or consumption,
will give them complete satisfaction.
You know and your customers know that, in
regard to nearly every class of product, there
are several brands of equal 'merit. Thus, A's
soup is the equal of B's or C's soup; D's shoes
are the equal of E's or F's shoes; G's radio sets
are the equal of H's or I's sets; J's hosiery is
the equal of K's or L's hosiery; M's electric
Washing machine or refrigerator is the equal of
N's or O's washing machine or refrigerator; and
so on and so on.
;Makers of advertised products recognize that
you have access to the attention and favor of
several .hundred buyers—your regular and irre
gular customers, and they want to use your dis-
tribution facilities for their advantage. But
are they willing, in every instance, to assist you
to sell their product if you stock it --assist you
with et series of local advertisements, to be pub-
lished in this newspaper?
They say that they will provide you with
plenty of window and counter display materia],
and printed matter; but quite often they de-
cline to use local advertising, in this newspaper,
over your name!
They tell you that they are spending a whale
of a lot of money in big -city dailies and in na-
tionally -circulated magazies;•but you know —
or can get to know—that in the territory served
by this newspaper upwards of 90 per cent of the
families living in it do not subscribe to national
magazines and big city dailies. This means that
the job of promoting local sales rs to be put an
your shoulders,
If it is right to use big city dailies and nation-
ally -circulated magazines then, by the same tok-
en, it is right to use local weekly newspapers!
It is no compliment to you as a retailer or to
the buyers of this town and territory for a na-
tional advertiser to decline to advertise his pro»
duct in this newspaper.
You can get much more advertising for your
store and stock.thanyou are now getting, if
you insist, as a condition of stocking a parti-
cular product, that it lie locally advertised in
this newspaper,
N.B.: Show this advertisement to men who
urge you to stock and push the sale of their
goods, yet who tell you that their firm cannot
assist their local sale .by advertising.
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