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The Clinton News Record, 1937-04-01, Page 2'AGE 2 THE "CLINTON NEWS -RECORD TI !TRS., APRIL , 1937 The Clinton -News-Record Withwhich is Incorporated TIIE NEW ERA TERMS Orb' SUBSCRIPTION $1,50 ,mer year in advance, to Cana- dian addresses. $2.00 to the U.S. or ether foreign countries. No paper discontinued until all arrears are paid unless as the option of the publish- er.'. The data to which every sub- ecrbtion is paid is denoted on the tebet. ADVERTISING RATES — Tran- sientadvertising 12e per count line for first insertion: 8c for each sub- segnent insertion. Heading counts 2 lines. 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 made 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''Publie, Conveyancer Financial. 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Directors Alex, Broadfoot, Sea - forth; James Sholdice, Walton; Wil- liam Knox, Londesboro; Chris, Leon- hardt, Dublin; James' Connolly, God- erich; Thomas Moylan, Seaforth; W. R. Archibald, Seaforth; Alex. McEw- Ing, Blyth; Frank McGregor, Clinton. List of Agents: W. J. Yeo, Clin- ton, R. R. No. 3; James Watt, Blyth; John E. Pepper, Brucefield, R. R. No. 1; R. F. McKercher, Dublin, R. R. No. 1; Chas. F. Hewitt, Kincardine; R. G. Jarmuth, Bornholm, R. R. No. 1. 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 be promptly attended to on applica- ion to any of the above officers ad- dressed to their respective post offi- ces. bosses inspected by the director who lives nearest the scene. ANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAYS TIME TABLE Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton as follows: Buffalo and Goderich Div. Going East, depart 7.03 a.m. Going East, depart 8.00 p.m. Going West, depart 12.02 mm. Going West, depart 10.08 p.m. London, Huron & Bruce Going North, ar. 11.34, lye 12.02 p.m. Going South 8.08 pan. Will It Become standard Following the announcement by several judges to the press that drunken drivers will receive stiff sen- tences, a term of six' months was handed out to Thomas Rutledge of Weston, whose car collided with that in which Premier Hepburn, his pri- vate secretary, his financial controller and his Minister of Health were rid- ing. The sentence was meted out by Magistrate Keith of York County. The defendant had four previous con- victions for drunken driving, and his drivers license had also been'sus- pended at the time of the mishap. The total fine was $100 or 30 days for driving without a permit, and six months for drunken driving. A sug- gestion was also made that he be sent to the Whitby Asylum for treatment. These are the kind of sentences which should take effect. No matter whether the drunken driver.. runs into a Premier or a labourer,. the stiffest sentence should be handed out. Until the drunken driver is penalized in ac- cordance with the seriousness of this offence, the highways will not be safe for the man who is trying his best to chive sanely and carefully. With the driving season opening up our highways will soon be heavy with traffic. There is no place for the drunken driver either on the highway or the back roads. Sentences like this one should snake some impression on the driver who thinks , he can drink and still drive his car. On the surface this appears to be a stiff sentence, but we wonder if it is stiff enough to make Or roads safe for .the coming driving season. It would at least serve as a standard for other judges to follow. Certainly some' standard is neces- sary to preserve life and limb. "THE LOST PRINCE" By o.. Bur -nett e� lea Franc ��� t SYNOPSIS Marco Loristan was the kind of a boy people looked at the second time when they had looked at him once. IIe was a well-built boy of 12, intelli- gent looking, and well-mannered. He and his father had travelled a great deal and the' boy was proficient in several languages, so 'that he felt. at home in whatever country he • was' staying. Marco knew that they. were Samavians, that there was trouble and bloodshed in Samavia at present, His father had told'hinm the story of the' Lost' Prince, who might one day return to &nnavia and restore order and peace. At present the Loristan's are in London, 'E'ngland, and Marco had eneountered several interesting people, among them, "The Rat," a crippled boy who commands a group of willing boys -the boys listen at- tentively as Marco speaks to them. httho_th NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY "Had he a son?" cried Marco. "Had. he a son?" "Yes, He had a son. His name was Ivor. And he was trained as told you. That part I knew to be true, though I should have believed it, was true even if I had not known. There has always been a king ready for Samavia—even when he has labor- ed with his hands and served others. Each one took the oath of allegiance" "As I slid?" said Marco, breathless with excitement. When one is twelve years old, to be so near a Lost Prince who might end wars is a thrilling thing. "The same," answered, Loristan. Marco threw un lois hand in salute. "Heregrows a roan for Samavia! God be thanked!" he quoted. "And he is. somewhere? And you know?" Loristan bent his head in.acquies- cence. "For years much secret work has been done, and the Fedorovitch party has grown until it is ,much greater and more powerful than the other parties dream. The larger countries are tired of the constant war'and dis- order in Samavia. 7aheir interests are disturbed by then, and they are de- ciding that they must have peace and laws which .can be counted on. There have been Samavian patriots who have spent their . lives in trying to bring this about by making friends in the most ,powerful capitals, and working secretly for the future good of their own land. Because'' Samavia is so small and uninfluential it has taken , e long time; but when King Marin and his family were assassin ated and the war broke out, there were great powers which began to say that if some king of good blood and reliable characteristics were gi- ven the crown,he should be upheld." "His blood,"—Marco's intensity made his voice drop almost to a whis- per,—"his blood has been trained for five hundred years, Father! If it conies true—" though he laughed a little, he was obliged to wink his eyes hard because suddenly he felt tears rush into them, which no boy likes- "the shepherds will have to make a new song—it will have to be a shout- ing one about a prince going away and a king coming back!" "They are a devout people and ob- serve many an ancient rite and cere- mony. They will chant prayers and burn altar -fires on their mountain sides," Loristan said. "But the end is not yet=the' end is not yet. Some- times it seems that perhaps it is neat—but God knows!" Then there leaped back upon Marco the story he had to tell, but which he had hold back for the last—the storyy of the man who spoke Sama- vian and drove in the carriage with the King. He knew now that it might mean some important thing which he could not have before suspected. "There is something I must tell you," he said. He had learned to relate incidents in few but clear words when he re- lated thein to his father. It had been part of his training. Loristan had said that he might 'sometime have a story to tell when he had but few moments to tell it in—some story which meant life or death to . some one. He told this one quickly and well. He made Loristan see the well- dressed man with the deliberate man- ner and the keen eyes, and he made him hear his voice when he said, :`Tell your father that you are a very very well-trained lad." • "I ams glad he said that, He is a man who knows what training is," said Loristan. "He is a person who r e is doing, what all Dw op and almost all that it will do He is an ambassador: froum a powerful and great country. If he saw that you are a well-trained and fine lad, it might ---it might even be geode for Samavia." ' "Would it matter that I was well- trained ? ell -trained? Could it matter to Samav- ia?" Marco cried out. Loristan paused for a moment — watehing him gravely—looking him over—his big, well-built boy's frame, his shabby clothes, and his eagerly burning eyes. Ile smiled one of hi 's slo .Cul ' smiles. "Yes. It might even Samavia!" he answered. CIIAPTEIR VI w wonder- with less ceremony than a private would have shown. "There's no use in natter to my coming here if you don't want me." "'E's got a grouch on 'cos you're late!" called out the head of the line. "No doin' nothin' when 'e's got a grouch on," "I'sha'n't try to do anything," said Loristan did not forbid LMarco to Marco, his boy -face setting itself in - pursue his acquaintance with The Rat to good stubborn lines.. "That's not and his followers. • what I came here for. I came to "You will find out for yourself drill. I've been with toy father. He whether they are friends for you or conies first. I can't join the Squad if not," he said. '"You will know in a he doesn't come first. We're not on few clays, and then you can make active service; and we're not in : bar - your own decision, You have known racks." • lads in various countries, and you are Then The Rat moved sharply and a good judge of them, I think. You turned to look at him. • will soon see whether they are going "I thought you weren't coming at to be men or mere rabble. The Rat all!" he snapped and growled at once, now—how does he strike you?" And "My father, said you wouldn't. • He the handsome eyes held their keen said you were a young swell for all look of questioningt h e Olathe th H •sird The Drib and the Secret Party youre c . paces. a yoir "He'd be a brave soldier if he father would think he was a swell, could Stand," said Marco, thinking even'if'he was only a penny -a -linen on him over. "But he might be cruel." newspapers, and he wouldn't let you "A lad who might make a brave have anything to do with a vagabond soldier cannot be disllained, but a man and a nuisance. Nobody begged you who is cruel is a fool. Tell him that to join. Your father can go to from me," Loristan answered. "He blazes!": wastes force -his own and the force of the one he treats cruelly, Only a "Don't you speak in that way a - fool wastes force." . bout nip father," said Marco, quite "May I speak of you sometimes?' quietly, "because I can't knock you asked Marco. down." "Yes. You will know how. You will "I'll get up and let you!" .began remember the -things about which si- The Rat, immediately white and rag- lence is the order." ing. "I can stand up with two sticks. "I never forget them," said Marco. I'll get up and let you!" "I have been trying not to, for such "No, you won't," said Marco. . "If a long time." you want to know what my father • said, I can tell you. He said I could "Yon have succeeded well, • Com- conic as often as I liked—till I found rade`" returned Loristan, front his out whether we should be friends or writing -table, to which he had gone not. He says I shall find that out for and where he was turning over pa- myself." pers. It was a strange thing The Rat did,' A strong impulserhedoveroveto the btle It must always be remembered of him boy. stoodlie marched to the table that his wretched father, who had and alyvery straight, makinghobody each year sunk lower and .lower• in soldierly young salute his whole Body glowing, the under -world, had been a gentle - !"Father!" he said, "you don't know` man once, a man who had been famil- how I love you! I wishy you were , ler with good manners and had been educated in the customs of good general.andn I :night die, in battle d breeding, Sometimes when he was you. do I look at you, I longuand drunk, and sometimes when he was !long to do something for - you a boy could not do. 1 Would die a thousand partly sober, he talked to The Rat of !wounds rather than disobey you—or many things the boy would otherwise Samavia!" never have heard of. That was why the lad was different from the other He seized Loristan's hand, and vagabonds. This, also, was why he knelt on one knee and kissed it. An suddenly altered the whole situation English or American boy could not bydoing this strange and unexpected have done such a thing from unaf. thing. He uterly changed his expres- fected natural impulse. But he was sion and voice, fixing his sharp eyes of warm Southern blood. WIIAT. OTHER NEWSPAPERS ARE SAYING Recognizing the trials' and tempta- tions to which the weekly papers of Alberta have been subjected during the last 18 months, on account of drought, scarcity of crops, scarcity of funds and above all to Premier Ab- erhart's social credit antics, The Fin- ancial Post is commending that sec- tion of the Canadian press for its courage As The Post says, it would have been an easy matter for the Al- berta weeklies to follow the unthink ing masses, to later turn back with the crowd. The papers steadfastly refused to adopt that line of action and the wisdom of their, course is now apparent„ though Alberta's Premier still insists his plans are workable. Hope deferred makes' the heart grow sick and that seems,to'be the state of mind of the average citizen of the Province of Alberta. —The—TheGoderich Star. shrewdly on Marco's. It was almost "I took my oath of allegiance to as if he were asking him a conun- you, Father, when I took it to Sa.l drum. He knew it would have been mavia. It seems as if you were Sa-. one to most boys of the class he ap- niavia, too," he said, and kissed his! peered outwardly to belong to. Ile hand again. Loristan had turned toward him with one of the movements which I were full of dignity and grace. Marco, looking up at him, felt that there was always a certain remote stateliness in what a gentleman and an officer him which nacre it seein quite naturalwould have said, if he felt he had that any one should bend, the knee and (been mistaken or rude. He had heard kiss his hand. A sudden great tenderness glowed I beg yours for being late," said would either know the answer or he wouldn't. "I beg your pardon," The Rat said. That was the conundrum. It was !that from his drunken father. a in his father's face as he raised the Marco, boy and put his hand on his shout- That was the right answer. It was der, the one another effieer and gentle "Comrade," he said, "you don't man would have made. It settled the know how niueh I love you—and what matter at once, and it settled more reason there is that we should lotto j than was apparent at the moment. It each other! You don't know how I decided that Marco was one of those have been watching you, and thank- f who knew the things The Rat's fath- ing God ' each ; year that here grew a ler had once known—the things gen- man for Samavia. That I know you denten do and say and think. Not are—a pan, though you have lived another word was said. It was all but twelve years. Twelve yearsmay right. Marco slipped into line with grow a man—or 'prone that a man the Squad, and The Rat sat erect with will never grow, though a human his military bearing and began his thing he may remain for ninety years. drill: This year -may , be full of strange "Squad!. things for both of us. We cannot "'Tention! know what, I may have to ask you "Number! to do for me—and for Samavia. Per- "Slope arms! haps such a thing as no twelve -years "Form fours! old boy ,has ever done before," • "Right! "Every night and every morning," "Quick march! said Marco, "I shall pray that I may "Halt! be called to do it, and that I inay do "Left turn! it well." "Order arms! "You will do it well, Comrade, if "Stand at ease! you are called. That I could make "Stand easy!" oath," Loristan answered him. They did it so well that itwas quite wonderful when one considered the limited space at their .disposal. They • The Squad had collected in the in- had evidently done it often, and The closure behind the church when Mar- Rat hadbeen: not only a smart, but co appeared at the arched end of the a severe, officer. This moving they passage. The boys were drawn up repeated the exercise a number of with, their rifles, but they all bore a times, and even varied it with Review tither clogged and sullen look. The Drill, with which they seemed just as explanation which darted' into Mar- familiar. co's mind was that this was because "Where did: you' learn it?" The Rat The Rat was in a bad humor. He asked, when the: arms were stacked sat cyouched together on his platform again and Marco was sitting by him biting his nails fiercely, his elbowson es he had sat the previous day. his undrawn knees, his face twisted "From an olcl soldier. And I like into hideous 1 notlooktoado. , a e ms scow Ile did watch it,as you around, or even look up from the • "If you were a young swell in the cracked flagstoneof the pavement on Guards, you couldn't be smarter at which bis eyes were fixed. it,"' The Rat said. "The way you hold Marco went forward with military yourself! The way you stand! You've step and stopped opposite to Him with got it! Wish I was you! It comes prompt salute. natural to. you." "Sorry' to be late, sir,' he said, as "I've always, liked to watch it and if, he had been a private speaking to try to do it myself. I did when 1 his colonel.' was a little fellow," answered Marco. "It's 'im, Rat! •'E's cone, Rat!" "I've been trying to kick it into the Squad shouted. "Look •at 'inn'!" these chaps for more than a year," But The Ret would not, look, and said The Rat. "A nice job I had of did not even move. it! Itnearly made me sick at first" "What's, the matter?" said Marco, The semicircle in front of him only THE MINISTER THEY WANTED There is a story going the rounds' about a small congregation of the United Church hunting for a new minister. The board of members were perplexed: and they sought the air of one of the chief executives of the church, who happened to be in the city on official business. The execu- tive 'met the board and they told him what they had ill mind. One mansug- pested they needed a great orator and pastor; -another said the man they wanted would have to be a genius for organization; another put in that they needed someone with an eye to fin- ances; another intimated that they would require a good politician to keep the various factions in mind; • another wanted someone with athletic ability to coach the young. The church executive listened attentively an d then` said: "Well, gentlemen, all ,you want is a cross between Rev. Dr. Pid- goon, Sir Edward Beatty, }Ion. Char -1 les Dunning, Premier Hepburn and Lionel Conacher, and' you want to get him for $100 per month; I tell you, it' can't be done." ' Windsor Star. giggled or laughed outright. . The members of it seemed to take very little offense at his cavalier treatment of them. He had evidently something to give them which was entertaining enough to make up for his 'tyranny and indifference. He thrust his hand into one of the pockets of his ragged coat, and drew out a piece of news- paper. "My father brought home this, wrapped round a loaf of bread," he said. "See what it says there!" He handed it to Marco, pointing to some words printed in large letters at the head of a column. Marco Looked at it and sat very, still. The words he read were: "The Lost Prince." "Silence is still the order," was the first thought which flashed through his mind. "Silence is still the order." "What does it mean?" he said aloud. "There isn't much of it. I wish there was more," The Rat said fret- fully. "Read and see. Of course they say it mayn't be true—but I believe it is. They say that people think some one knows where he is- at least where one of his descendants is. It'd be the same thing. He'd be the real king. If he'd just show him- self, it might stop all the fighting. Just read." (Continued next week). HOW ABOUT IT A whole lot of big wigs met around a festive board oneday last week and listened, as their hearts weve mellowed by viands, to a talk by a learned gentleman in which it was stated that unless the workers of this Province and every unemployed fam- ily and such folk were provided with a house worth $2,500 equipped with electricity an d modern plumbing, things were sure to go to, the bad generally. Of course it goes without saying that these benevolent gentle- men would have plenty of roast beef and plum pudding' with all the acces- sories 'usually associated with such trifles thrown in with the house. Yet we know farmers who have, toiled for 50 years who have no such provision made for their old age. We wonder and wonder and wonder! That audience who live by the public one way and another do precious little to help anyone but themselves. .Special privileges and political pull have se- cured them their high position which they are now using to break the backs . A of Ontario taxpayers. Can they not hear the rumblings of a coming storm? Why clo they not use their fine education and their fine abilities in the way of rousing the unemployed! to do a little in the way of self help? Exeter Tinges -Advocate. WFIAT IS THE OTHER FELLOW DOING? Whether we stay in the town of our births or wander off to distant parts there are those who have known us. as children who often wonder just how we are getting along in life, what line of work we are following, how successful we have been, if we have married, what anniversaries we have celebrated and what not? It is not curiosity.It is just one fellow's in- terest in another. If, perchance they learn of him in some way, their eyes glisten, and they remark, Yes, I (continued on page 3) CENT A -MILE ROUND TRIP BARGAIN FARES (Minimum Fares : Adult 75c.: Child 40c.) 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