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The Clinton News Record, 1939-09-21, Page 2PAGE 2 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD THURS., SEPT. 21, 1939 apiure `beyond By KRTHARI(IE ItEWllll BURT p THIRD INSTALLMENT Synopsis Jocelyn Heriowe,;raised in a French convent, at the age of eighteen joins ber mother, Marcella, in New -York. ;Worried about her safety, because .she .is unfamiliar :with the modern world and bas developed into a beautiful woman, her mother's first wish is to get her safely married. .Attending her first ball, Jocelyn meet Felix 'Kent, rich, handsome and :nineteen years older than herself. En- couraged by her mother, she and Felix quickly become engaged. Alone in her apartment one night, a cripple, Nick Sandal, enters by the fire - escape, confides in her that he is her 'father and that her real name is Lynda Sandal. He gives her his, ad- chess, ddress, inquires about her coming mar- riage and disappears as mysterious- ly as he had come. She confides in her mother that she doesn't want to get married so soon, but her mother The Clinton News -Record with which is Incorporated ( THE NEW LRA TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION 41.50 per year in advance, to Can- adian addresses; $2,00 to the U.S. or other foreign countries. No paper discontinued until all arrears are .paid unless at the option of the ,pub- lisher. The date to which everysub- scription is paid is denoted on the label. .ADVERTISING RATES — Transient( .advertising 12c per count line for first insertion.' Se. for each subse- quent insertion. Heading counts 2 Bines. Small advertisements not to exceed one inch, such as "Wanted", "Lost, "Strayed", etc., inserted once for . 35c., each subsequent insertion 15c. Rates for display •advertising shade known on application. Communications intended for pub- lication must, as a guarantee of good faith, be accompanied by the name -of the writer. G, E. HALL - Proprietor H. T. RANCE Notary Public, Conveyancer Financial. 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Going West, depart 10.00 p.m. London, $wren & Bruce Going North, ar. 11.25 lve. 11.47 p,m Going South ar. 2.50, leave 3.08 p.m • tells her it is for the bast just as1 meat and cordiality, Felix comes in and takes her in his Then Felix entered and the girl' arms i lir !i came toward him, speaking earnestly. A now Jocelyn seemed to meet him at every turn, he made. all right again?" 6.4 St'JV'K'.Sf.V.'4i'KY+'K•KKJ',Kl.rK'J'J',•K9Y„VEVAI■:•: ,rwW•K°K'; .+: ee• K'aN'� :�, a box, Jointly they were able, for "I suppose so," said Jocelyn limply. . "Will your mother be back seen?" f "No. She has gone up the river to see a friend of hers in the ,sisterhood there, But don't worry, Felix. I'm betterorralone tonight.Mary will stay in, Good night. Forgive ate. I was hid," When he was ,gone Jocelyn went .to her mother's prie-dieu and tried to pray. But the tears of anger and tears of penitence were dry at their source. In her, own roam, she sat dawn on her bed and thought. After a while she pulled out a big leather valise from her' closet and rummaged there. "Crying, loveliest?° "Felix, can't I 'learn how to do She dressed herself in a pleated short Jocelyn answered'in: a hard' voice; £hese things f .you" I mean if Miss plaid :skirt, a black tight jersey, long- apao" • ' sleeved,nigh in' the throat, 'a'little jacket, and in a big old tarn o'-shanter. Before she put this on her head beak For (n th n b of d ruin, and had not one of the she ran' her fingers back and forth bl sons been a competent medhanie and through her sleeked thick hair until driver, this truck would never have it was the wild unruly mop of a carried them on their way. golliwog. She went to her mother's Imagine eleven — nay, twelve -- room and examined the likeness she persons starting off on a 1000 mile had so achieved: ,a girl with a skim "Are you angry about something?" ayme "Have I done anything to hurt you, dear? If se, it wasquite unintention- al." "You haven't done anything. It's what you are." "Jocelyn! Do you realize What you are saying? That's pretty hard," "I know it is: I feel hard. And I can't believe that you love me."' "But, dearest." "If you did, if I felt that you did, ed back at Miss Becky restoring her I would be happier." good humor and her sense of super- "Jocelyn," he began in anger but iority. "Just you ask questions. Miss promptly controlled himself, assum- Becky and I. will answer. them." • ing a tone of authority. "You're just • "And both of you know quite well a child and you are indulging your- that I'm ignorant even to know .'. . self in a mood. Come on. Get ready to what questions." She was close to go out. You need a change of scene tears. ; and some diversion. I'll take you' Felix became at once .serious, re - down to my office ... I have to go spectfui and concerned. Miss Deal, there . . . and to lunch somewhere with a twisted mouth of irony, re - amusing afterward. A theatre, may-; turned to her typewriter. be. That will give you a break, won't In the limousine, on their way to it? Something new to in about"!lunch, Felix spoke tenderly: "Oh, Felix, will you? I'd love -WI "You mustn't be hurt at my teas- see your office. I've never been in -fang you, Jocelyn.. I do want you to side an American office. Will you be in my confidence but I never show me everything? Will you e*- thought you'd be interested in this plain everything?" ' I sort of thing." The office occupied the third floor of a tall narrow building. Its windows faced at one end the street at the other a narrow 'alleyway. Jocelyn's eyes, healed from tears as quickly as a child's, were bright with curios- ity and with excitment. The obser- are married?" vant clerks and stenographers in the "You may take any course you like, outer office made her flush. In Kent's beloved. But you mustn't hate your !inter sanctuary, the office that look- beautiful innocence. It is just because ed out on the alleyway, she was intro- you are so exquisitely different that duced to Miss Rebecca Deal, alittle I love you," ruddy sturdy woman with bright And it was that very afternoon eyeglasses and a wide mouth, when they quarrelled for the first When Felix lent to interview some time seri. one in the outer office, she sat down in his revolving chair before his great Jocelyn was playing for him. He neat handsome desk, and, looking at would often ask her to, for although Miss Deal with all her eager eyes; his interest in music and his under - began to question her; standing of it were negligible it ob- "You work here with ,him every viated the necessity for conversation. day?" Yet Jocelyn wanted to talk. "Half the time he's off, Miss Har- She played„ therefore rebelliously lowe, in Chicago or the Southwest. and chose, snapping off in the middle He's interested, as of course yeti of his favorite "piece" (the ballet know, in all these mines." Ifrom Sylvia) that melody of her own. "Are they the crosses on the map composition, thenursery rhyme set here against the wall?" Ito the intervals of terror. "Yes. He has so many irons in the She sang and her face changed: Deal could teach me, I'd love to work with you, to understand ,, "Out to steal Mies Becky's job al- ready; are you? Bless you, darling, you're a sweet child. Isn't she a 'sweet child, Miss Becky?" Miss Becky made a dry sound which passed for an, assent. "I would' really like to know about your business, Felix." , "You ,shall know whatever you want to know, sweetheart," He wink - "But this sort of thing is just part of all I must know, Felix. I have been so put away and shut up,;.. . like one of these unlucky princesses in towers. Do you think I could take a business course, perhaps, after we Stop taunting tae, you ll;tic devil," he said, .J„ fire, only I always say they oughtn't, Quand le petit bossu, ma foil to be called 'irons' but guldens' forl' the value of them . , . though they ) "Telt me what it means," coin - never 'Vent se placer derriere moi." don't show any sign of melting. There, mended Felix,, striding toward her, never was a Iuekier or smarter man.! his mouth set. For there Was a look than your fiancee, Miss Harlowe." (in the girl's face that woke the tyrant "It seems so queer to me," said in hint. ' Jocelyn with her slow wistful smile, I "This is my ,secret," sang Jocelyn "that all this side 01 his life just in 'her queer light tune. "It is like means nothing to me. How much! the Combination of your safe that better you know him titan I do!" Ian papers and your contracts Rebecca blushed and laughed. land your correspondence and your "Oh, now, you've got no tail to i ancient love -letters. say that, I'm sure, You, hisbest girl "I must have my secrets. Mother and everything! But in a manner of has hers.• And you have yours. I've speaking, yes. I'm in his confidence.ltried to win them from you. But, He calls e al s me his second safe. The first no, you will keep them to yoarselvas: one's over yonder." 'And now you can't scare mine out, of Jocelyn looked • at the great gay i me by placing yourself there behind ,shining box, sealed against her sa me, ma foil Because you are a great closely as the real mind of itsowner. l tail straight Man as simple as a "What's in it, Miss Deal?" Iperpendicular line .. or a wooden "His most important papers, Con- post." tracts. Correspondence. Heaven l "Stop taunting me, you little known what all!" devil," "And you know all about them?" He pulled back her head and kissed "Why, no, Miss, Harlowe, I.' can't her on the mouth and she, springing say 1 do, But sometimes I get access up, struck hint with a violence ,that to them. Not that I know the conn sent him staggering, binati.on. Mr. Kent's :the only one "Jocelyn!" l ! I ; who knows that." "I told you to be careful," she said. "You will think i'ni a perfect idiot "You have the temper of a tigress. but, , you know. How dare you fly out at me like "I'm like Pandora, Miss Deal," that? The, nuns would shut you up Jocelyn admitted, "I'd like to know on bread and water," how to open, it. Do, you suppose he'd "As you will, no doubt, when you telt me?" are my husband. I don't think I want Miss Deal shrugged. Behind the,a husband ... ire!" i will not make glasses her eyes were half pitying you a good wife." and half contemptuous. "You will, however, be a delicious "You think I haven't much chance, . . woman -to -love . ' ." thought don't' you?" asked Jocelyn aahrewdiy. Felix and said aloud, "I won't tease Miss Deal covered her confutsion at yew then, darling. I'll go away and the pretty fool's surprising •percpica- leave you in peace. Engagements are city, in a clicking slide of cemph- I the very devil anyhow, Are we , ti YOUR WORLD ANI) MIN aY (Copyright) 'P r ,ki d by JOHN C. iZ1R'KWOOD ,}f, ■ Y 1 (KID A �•1"K•'� A KK11KK"KK. o KI A KKK q•KKKKK•K•K YKKKKK . K AN Y�p,KO K L` When I had finished reading that was a kind Iand or, sbate—kindly and best-seller book, "The Grapes of genial. And so they set out for Cali - Wrath", by John Steinbeelc, I•• felt forma --a 1000 er 2000 miles ,away. that if it could be read by all of us They had to sell their scanty posses- who live in. Canada, we would agree sions—those possessions which could that We are a -favoured people. We not be carried in their trunk. Their would feel that our lot, whatever it teats of horses brought only , $10. may be, is incomparably better ;than Their implements they could hardly the lot of the Joad 'family and of give away. When all was sold, the all the others whose story is told Joads had less than $200 this to by Steinbeck in his painful book. sustain eleven of them, and also a It is improbable that',many of my friend who. went along with them. readers have read this acclaimed' The truck perchased wasrett . much P Y e thing, itMay note obtainable 'in ones public library: Toronton Public Library will not put this book on its shelves, This is be- cause there are so many expressions in the book that would offend—would shock --'most readers. I would not say that, the book is coarse or vicious or 'immoral; in is just realistic: The •K o• journey, in a crippled truck, laden high colored face, a firm rich mouth, with a few utilities; a truck liable to a pair' of tilted gleaming eyes: a girl break down at any moment, whose with a swagger that was made language used by both adults and worn tires were unequal to, the de charming by its lines of race and children is not the languagewhich mends made on then; with gas re - breeding. we hear commonly, yet it is language retiring to be purchased with terrify - "Oh, Lynda Sandal," said Jocelyn, familiar to all persons of the class ing frequency, and with fond•needed "I am agoing to like you. Maybe you and locality of the Joads, The book to feed a dozen persons—and with willbe wonderful!" is not smutty; it would not give any Coiling a trunk rope round her raptures to persons of prurient minds. arm she switched off her light and It does not dwell on the baser pas - swung cher leg across the window- sions of men ,and women, though it sillfrankly recognizes that lustfulness is It was all dark below in the well. a prevalent quality in many of the There lay the entrance to the alley men of the Joad level and back - close by the ladder's foot. The city ground. with its lights and towers, its horns' The book is photographic in the of river travel and of land traffic, sense that it aims to give the reader called to her blood. an untouched, unsoftened pieture of All the way down toward that the life of a certain social stratum dark pavement -with its exit to an to Oklahoma and California, and in unknownkpa world, wite said, not n,the in-between country. It is almost I'm not afraid." a repelling picture, yet one who be - afraid. By the timeshe reached the pave -'gins the book is likely to finish It. Steinbeck's book has been called by some competent judges to be Am- erica's supreme novel. It is an im- mensely powerful book. It was writ ten to let American's see how some some money and told him to paY American live and suffer and die. It and to dismiss her driver- Then, does not pretend to be a sermon er her heart jumping and then lips cold, preachment, yet is a sort of sermon. She began to mount the stairs in It is an exposure of intolerable con- front of her. The hall she left was , of the limitless sufferings dimly lighted. Behind closed doors andditionsindigultiesand which have to be en - there were subdued regular sounds dured by a certain class of unforttm- of card -play: the clack and shuffle, ate persona of really fine qualities the dight slipping noises, brief state-; itinl of great honesty men and meats, the shifting of chairs. On women willed to work, yet who can- ment, ,this was true. "Does a Mr. Sandal live here?" "Yes'tn. Tree flight up." Jocelyn handed the Japanese boy the second floor people were dans- not find work ing and making a great jolly hub- bub, On the third floor when the not much more than $150 cash. Steinbeck's picturing of this jour- neying westward is a harrowing one —one to wring one's heart. Yet the Joads never faltered in respect of their courage and purpose. They had periods of near -starvation. Seldom had they any chance of work. What work was available to them was at wages lowered to it scandalous fig-.' ure, because employers were - its a position to dictate wages: the supply of labour was far in excess of re- quirements, and always there were those whom from desperation, would work at any wage offered. Always there was mutiny, often there were strikes. The needs of the Joad family -there were so many of them—were large. On their way to California the grandfather died. Later the grand- mother died. The youngest son just a lad in his early teens—was l wasting away from malnutrition. The elder daughter, married, was in a family way, and needed milk, which. was almost never possible to get. a day or 'so, to earn between $3 and. $4 "a clay. Then the' price was cut to 21/2,c a day—Which was not enough to enable .them to live here was a strike, In a quarrel with, police and guards, one of the sons 'struck one of them, and himself wa's wounded seriously, and 'had to remain hidden. In the end he waa able to escape. from this place of peril, and in SD doing he disappears from the story, The story ends rather abruptly, The ,Toads were living in a box car ---more comfortably than many. The daughter was expecting her ,baby to be barn at any hour. It was born during a great rain storm that pro- duced roduced such a flood that the rising waters covered the floor of the box- car, a crew floor was hastily oon- stracted, yet it had to be raised ones or twice, to get it above the water level. It was 'during this battling with the rising water that the baby was born—dead, and it was immed- iately bulled in the soaked earth. The story does not go beyond this nigiht of terror and pain and grief, and what became of the Joads is not told. This book has no plot. It is classed as notion, but it is just a transcrip- tion of the lot of a typical Oklahoma family driven from their native state and from their small cotton farm by dust and drouth and the economics of their way of farming—and misled by a random yellow handbill wltico said that there was plenty of work to be had in California, For a month or so the Joads did. have a little pleasant experience. They went to a government -operated breathless adventurer came nearer: The Joads are a typical Oklahoma camp, and lived in a cabin or cabins to it there was a sound of Iow mas-Ifantily, They were ousted from their with running water and with laundry culine comment and again the clack' email holdings by drought and dust tubs and flush toilets. Never pre - and shuffle of cards. A door stood and by agricultural economics, Tltey viously in their life had this family open, could not snake their few acres, given known such comforts and amenities; Jocelyn paused before she too:: up to' the growing of cotton, pay. and they revelled in the luxury of wished to reconnoiter and to coin - the last few steps of her ascent, She They got financially behind, and they plenty of water, including hot water. were driven off their lands, almost But soon they had to leave this Mand iter. discarded pulses and her ruthlessly. They heard that there was camp, in quest of work. They found jerking nerves. Her eyes were on a work in California — that California work in a peach orchard—at 6 cents level with the threshold of the open door. Opposite her across the width of the comfortable l4iabby room Nick Sandal crouched on a battered sofa against the wall. He was twisted up, painfully among same tattered cushions and smoked a pipe, His bright eyes watched a group ox four men playing cards at a table. The faces of three of these meit were visible to Jocelyn, all in their shirtsleeves, two in profile and one facing her. The fourth sat with his back turned and wore a coat. Tho game carte to an end, the man whose back was turned to her pushed back his chair and rose. "Blast that Jack of Diamonds;" he said and picking up a card slung himself in a supple and silent fash- ion across the room and stuck the cardboard object against the wall, using for the purpose a piece of chewing gum. "That diamond digger sits on my neck like a fetish. Ill put a hole 'into his blond beauty." And stepping back a pace he took a knife from his hip pocket, .balanced it in his palm and threw it with swift anti furious skill so that it stood quiver- ing in the center of the card. Thereafter all four men returned to their play, ' The knife -thrower now faced Jocelyn. , He was young with naturally vivid imitates, Which had been worked into ,a grin anct iron mask. Then he glanced up front his cards and saw her, Ile rose as :though her silent face out there had frightened him. She carne tepidly up the last few steps and stood be- fore him in the door. "Boys, this is my daughter," he =led out sharply. "Go on with your game, please," she said. "I carte to talk to 'try !farther." The men obeyed with alacrity. "! Jocelyn sat down beside the cripple on his battered lounge and put her hand uncertainly upon his free one, (Continued Next Issue) AND WAS IT HOT?, The Fergus Newsi-Record tells this one: G. A. Lamb reports that it was riot one night last week. He didn't need a thermometer to prove it. A rooster had been sitting all night on a low branch of a spruce tree. ' It Was so hot that the gum melted. Whets .the roaster still sat there at ten o'clock the next clay, an investi- gation showed Sliat he was stuck fast to the branch and it was nets sary to cut off some of his feathers to release him. We in this country think that life for many families and for many farmers is very dreadful; yet after reading "The Grapes of Wrath", one begin to feel that Canada is heaven. This book is not a pleasant one, and it paints an ugly picture, yet this book must contribute largely to the forces and agencies at work to cor- rect the wrongs which many honest, willing families suffer, because of ignorance—their own ignorance, and the greed and sins of certain classes of employers, 33/4% On Guaranteed Trust Certificates A legal investment for Trust Funds Unconditionally Guaranteed STEM! TTi�E" TRUSTE CORPORATION STERLING TOWER TORONTO 1 Ondarwaod Typewriters sic 0 w ek New Portables complete with carrying case. All latest improvements. 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