The Clinton News Record, 1934-01-18, Page 3rr
THURS., JAN. '18, 1934
THE CL TNTON NEWS-RECl
There was an unusually large num-
ber of munisipal acclamations for
this year, but the representatives
thus honored should not forget it
was prompted by a desire far econ-
omy. Any one thus returned can
never be certain that he wonld have
been elected if he had to take chances
at the polls. If a new man his chan-
ces would be reasonably good, but
in times itike these there is a fairly
general urge to oust those who were
in, but in •many cases this desire
gave way to the desirability of sav-
ing the cost of elections,
eseelasiste
There are federal and provincial
members who would welcome similar
economies on the larger fields, but
also for them there is no public de-
sire for 'economy where expenses are
not met by direst taxation. The
cost of municipal elections is not
large but it is an item in the annual
financial statements and is reflected
in the tax bilis. The larger cost of
federal and provincial elections com-
es out of the pockets of the electors,'
too, but not directly, hence the pub-
lic is not sufficiently interested in '
the cost to forgo the fun and excite-
ment of general elections.
uses
A man (boasts that without burn=
•ing extra fuel he was able to keep
the temperature inside his house at
seventy above when the thermometer
outside registered between thirty and
forty below. That's what's called
blowing hot and cold.
euseestaila
In a ,magazine article a woman de-
clares she loves statistics and pre-
fers Babson's because he does not
overlook the spiritual element. No
doubt Babson's makes the heart grow
fonder.
Seeing that the recommendations
are made by statesmen (or should we
say ;politicians?) It will not .be long
before titles rof honor and distinction
are given to statesmen (or should we
say politicians?) but any evils that
might arise from the practice 'would
be mitigated if they got their titles
as Asquith did, who was created Lord
Oxford and Asquith after he had
been defeated and when his political
opponents were in power.
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This does not mean that no such
titles (would be granted if that con-
dition held. Party animosities are
fierce enough in Canada but political
opponents are kind and chivalrous tc
aparty leader -after he is; defeated
•.
and out of the strife. It is his parti-
sans who become unkind. With many
of them failure to win is a ` capital
offence." They don't forgive him but
the victors do.
else
An eight-hour day is advocated by
firemen in some cities. It Would be
agreeable no doubt, but it would not
make for real proficiency in the
game of checkers.
s
While we have nothing but symp-
athy for a student who cannot con-
tinue his university course because
he is unable to pay the fees, yet we
are unable to find fault with the uni-
versity authorities for insisting upon
payment. We sympathize with a
man who cannot pay his taxes yet we
find no fault with the municipal •au-
thorities for taking over his property
if the taxes are not paid. Most of
the students who struck against pay-
ing fees paid when they saw they
could not intimidate the authorities.
The strike was as silly as it was
selfish.
esusallaml
When Roosevelt paid his respects
to the malefactors of Wall St., the
men who rig the markets, form com-
binations and fleece the public the
result was a drop in prices. The
wicked flee when no man pursueth,
but they sell common stocks when
one man gets after them.
Owen talls4,1
Parisian mobs riot and went to
turn out the French government be-
cause a bank failed. The present
Ministry can however prove an alibi
if that has any influence over the
mob. As Punch says the govern-
ment of France goes in one year and
out the other.
essMnesstil
Among the letters published in the
new Life sof Sir •Cecil Spring Rice
is one written from Washington In
1896 to his sister in England, in
which he tells this story: At a lunch
in New England there was no clergy-
man present. So the host singled out
a pious, solemn -looking man in a
black coat and tie, with a religious
appearance, and asked him to pro-
nounce a blessing. The gentleman,
after being twice addressed, put his
hand to his ear and said, "I see you
are talking to me, sir, but 1 am so
G - - damned deaf that if hell froze
over I 'couldn't hear the crackling of
the ice."
What Clinton was Doing in The Gay Nineties
DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED DURING TIM LAST DE-
CADE OF THE OLD CENTURY?
From The News -Record, Jan. 17th, '
1894:
Miss Dot Fair is visiting in the
City of the Straits.
Miss Broder, sister of Mrs. Geo;
D. McTaggart, is visiting the latter.
Last Friday a Robin Red Breast
was seen in town on Queen street.
The feathered stranger was noticed
on the roadside by Messrs. S. J. An-
drews and M. McTaggart:
The New Mayor: Mr, R. Holmes
took the declaration of office last
Monday and is now mayor of Clin-
ton. There was some doubt as to
whether he could legally qualify, in
feet he was doubtful himself. Mr.
Holmes obtained the advice of Mr.
Garrow of Goderich, a good author,
it;', and was informed that every-
thing was all right. This may pos-
sibly settle the matter. The meet-
ing Monday night indicates that Mr.
Holmes will make a competnent and
painstaking mayor. Like the may-
or, the new councillors, Cooper and
Young, acquitted themselves admir-
s ably.
An amusing incident in a Sunday
school in tows a week ago was the
presentation of a •supposed S. S.
ticket which read: "Good for one
quart of milk."
From The New Era, Jan. 19th, 1894:
Dr. Gunn was in Wingham on
Saturday assisting in the amputation
Of the leg of Mr. Tasker, who was
suffering from gangrene.
The unusually mild weather at
this season of the year is not the
weather people expect and the gen-
eral opinion is that later in the sea-
son "we'll have to pay for it," Busi-
ness men do not like it because they
cannot sell heavy goods; farmers do
not like it because they • cannot do,
their teaming as usual, and seeming -
the only compensation in it is to the
poor man who can make a saving in
fuel.
The other day while Mr. Herman,
caretaker at the Cohegiate, was do-
ing some work in the •basement a
large bat flying about struck him
on the face. After some trouble he
succeeded in killing it and found
that it was an unusually large ene,
of the vampire variety. It has been
preserved for the use of students.
His Lordship, the Bishop of Huron
delivered an address in St. Paul's
church on Friday evening last, on
Foreign and Domestic Missions, to
an appreciative audience. The rec-
tor, Rev. Mr. Fairlie, was assisted
by the Revs; Hodgins and Diehl.
The Sons of Scotland:—The offi.
cers of Murray Camp. Sons of
Scotland, were installed by Past
Chief Shaw as follows: Past Chiefs:
T. L. Fortune and W. Murray; Chief,
J. Croll; I.P. Chief: Dr. J. W. Shaw;
Pipers: J. and D. Ross; Chiefton:
W. Weir; Treasurer: L. Kennedy;
Fin. -Secretary: F. W. Milne; Rec.-
Secretary:
ec:Secretary: W. H. Ball; I. Guard: L
Ingles; 0. Guard: J. 3. McDonald;
Chaplain: J. Ross; Marshal, J. Rob-
ertson; Standard Bearer: T. Hall;
Physician; J. W. Shaw; Trustees:
W. Coats, D. A. Forrester; Rep. to
Grand Camp: M. D. McTaggart.
Medical Meeting: —.4 The regular
quarterly meeting of the Huron Med-
ical Association was held in the Me-
chanics Institute, Seaorth, on Tues-
day, the 9th inst . The annual
election of officers resulted in the
return of Dr. Turnbull of Clinton
being elected president; Dr. Smith,
Mitchell, 'vice-president;' Dr. Shaw,
Clinton, secyetary-treasurer. Dr.
Bruce 'Smith of Seaforth was the
candidate for Huron and Perth:dis-
trict for a position on .the Ontaric
Council.
WHEN THE PRESENT' CENTURY.
WAS YOUNG
From The News -Record, Jan, 21st,
1909:
Mr. Thos. Beacom has sold his
grocery business to Messrs. A, 3.
Tyndall and A. B. Carr, who take.
possession next, Monday.
The 'Stratford and Clinton Hockey
teams will try;tonclusions on the lo-
cal rink tomorrow evening.
Artist Roberts took 'a photo on
Friday last of a big dray load of
hosiery, prior to Mr. L. Cree haul-
ing it away to the station for ship-
ment. It was part of a five -ton lot
sent out that day by the Clinton Hos-
iery Co.
On Monday morning last death
Gleamed a well known citizen in the
person of Mr. Francis Mellveen.
It is proposed to celebrate the
12th of July in Clinton and thts
week Messrs. Cutler and Josh Cook
passed around the list and already
over 1200 has been subscribed.
RICHARD III WAS WELL PRE-
SENTED:—The local company
which put on Shakspeare'•s tragedy,
"Richard III" in the town hall on
Thursday and Friday evenings last,
is •entitled to very great credit for
undoubtedly it was the most elabor-
ate and best staged play ever Pre-
sented here. , . . The wardrobes
were furnished by ... Toronto firm
. The music was supplied by
the A. Y. P. A. orchestra, the most
popular organization of the kind we
have in town. . . . The interest of
the audience was held from the first
act and it deepened as the play un-
folded, breaking out into warm ap-
plause at the really brilliant work
of the several players.
As Richard III Mr. E. J. Howard
gave evidence of possessing dra-
matic talent of a high order, ane
his portrayal of Glouster, deformed
in body but with a subtle mind and
wholly without scruple or remorse,
was magnificent and frequently the
audience showed its appreciation in
hearty applause. But it is not only
as a player that Mr. Howard excels;
he was stage manager as well and
that everything moved so smoothly
was due to his perfect arrangements
and capable assistants.
Miss Grace Cluff represented
Lady Anne. It was a difficult part
to play but she did it so cleverly
as to leave nothing to be desired.
As the Duchess of York Miss
Maud Deverell skillfully interpreted
the part, especially in the fourth act
where her spirited denunciation of
Richard electrified the audience,
Mrs. A. A. Hill played Queen Eli-
zabeth, interpreting the part with
spirit and pathos.
Wilber Ford was the Prince of
Wales and Fred the Duke of York
and well did they represent affec-
tionate Mads who preferred home and
mother to the pomp and danger of
the court.
J. B. Hoover was a dignified lord
mayor; H. B. Kerr a handsome
Richmond, Dr. Axon a graceful
Buckingham; Herb. Alexander a
soldierly Lieut. of the Tower; A'.
McLeod as Lord Stanley, the tact-
ful friend of both Richard and Rich-
mond; A. 'Conlif f, the alert Cateeby;
W. H. Hueston the astute Ratcliffe,
W. Gundry, Tressel; Clarence Copp,
priest; Edgar East, Blunt; W. Mof-
fat, Earl of Oxford, and W. Johnson
played the duel part of Tirrill and
the Duke of Norfolk.
Londesboro:—Several from here
attended the play Richard III given
in Clinton on Thursday and Friday
'evenings last.
Mr. Hutton of the flour mills ship-
ped a ear of flour this week. The
water has been high for the past
week and Mr. Hutton has been able
to run his mill by water power, but
it is low again and steam power
will have to be used. ,
— 1
From The New Era, Jan. 14th, 1909:
It was 18 degrees below zero on
Tuesday night.
J. H. O'Neil, son of Mr. Frank
O'Neil, has gone to Stratford to take
a position on the Beacon as report-
er.
It Was Fast: -1f it were not for
the fact that he was doing his best
to stop it ex -Mayor Hoover would
have been liable to a fine for furious
driving on Saturday, when his horse
ran away and dumped himself and
Mr. Hayes out on the road. The
cutter was smashed, which 'was the
extent of the damage done.
Business Men's Organization: --
Some thirty-five business men sat.
down to supper at Bartliff's restaur-
ant on Friday evening last. After
fully enjoying which they proceed-
ed to the election of officers for the
ensuing years as follows:
President: R. Holmes.
Vice -President: C. E. Dowding.
See. -Treasurer: A. T, Cooper.
These, with the mayor and: reeve,
will form the executive.
Short impromptu speeches were
made by others, among them being
Mayor Wiltse, Reeve Gibbings, Mess-
rs. W. Jackson,' J. Hoover, D. Cante-
lon, C. E. Dowding, T, ,Jackson, W.
Harland, J. Ransford and Dr, Shaw.
Salmon Indentified by Scales as Humans by
Means of Fingerprints
This is a 'story of fish, but not a
"fish story."`
The gist of it is that a salmon,
caught on the Atlantic coast to -day,
set free uninjured, and then caught
again a year or so hence may be
identified quite certainly on its re-
capture.
Impossible? Not impossible but
fact. As humans may be identified
by means of their fingerprints so
the salmon, and at least some other
fish, may be recognized by their
scale markings.
The life history of the salmon ie
written id its scales, and may be.
read from them by fisheries scien,
tists and other fisheries experts
who have Learned how. to interpret
the marking. Take, for instance, the
case of a salmon which spends the
first two years of its life in some
stream on the Atlantic coast, then
goes to, sea and remains in the salt
water for two years, comes back to
its native stream to spawn, swims
out to sea again, and returns once
more a year or two years later —
scale markings will record each of
these happenings in its life.
As a matter of fact, scale 'reading
is one of the means by which fish
culturists and fisheries scientists
may know whether a salmon report-
ed as being caught again later it
had been tagged in tagging expert
-
silents is actually the one that it is -
supposed to be. When a tag is plac-
ed upon a salmon in these expert,
ments, which are carried on for the
purpose of learning more about fish.
migrations, ete., it is often the prac-
tice to take from the fish a few of
its scales and to keep a record of
what they show as to its historyup
to that time. Rewards are offered
for tags from recapturedfish but it
is ,a condition of payment that each
tag returned must be accompanied 1
by specimen scales from the salmon,
When these scales come to hand
their markings are read and if the
story they tell of the life, of that
fish in the period before the tagging
date does not agree with the record
shown by the scales removed when
the tagged specimen was set free it
is known that the claim for the re-
ward is not bona fide and that there
has been some attempted trickery, on
the part •of the person sending back
the tag. What has usually happen-
ed when a case of this kind comes
to light—they rarely occur is that
the tag has been dislodged by the
marked fish in some way and that
the finder has returned it to the
tagging station with scales from
another fish, not knowing that sci=
ence has 'found out how tricks like
PXGE 3
that may be uncovered.
Most of Canada's tagging has been
salmon tagging,' for this reason, ;al,
mong others, that from the dallap;i
and cents standpoint the salmon 1
fishery ` is the, most valuable of all
the Dominion's many fisheries and,
hence, it •ik'particularly important
that as mueh as possible be found
out about its movements, habits, etc,,
and the knowledge thus obtained be
applied; in the interests of the fish -
nig industry and in the conversation
of the salmon stocks. As most peo-
ple know, salmon occur an both
coasts of Canada, although the Pac-
ific and. Atlantic salmon are not of
the sane genus. The larger catch,
es are made in British Columbia,
Salmon, of course, are most delic-
ious fish. They are the raw mater-
ial of the great salmon canning in-
dustry of British Columbia and from
both coasts large quantities are also
marketed in the fresh and frozen
forms. Some of the fish are also
smoked, some are pickled, some are
mild cured, and on the Pacific coast
some are dry -salted.
RADICAL CHANGES, ADOPTED
IN TURKEY
Turkey is adopting the metric sys-
tem of weights and measures, which
came into effect en December 31st
last, and the use of any .other sys-
tem is made illegal. This will give
a fair idea of the radical changes
that have been made in Turkey
since' the War,,as the previous units
of weights and measures have been
in use for centuries, Other radical'
changes which have been made is the
substitution of Latin characters and
alphabet for the more ancient, Arabic
and the abolition of the fez and veil.
A RECORD IN SAFE; l '
TRANSPORTATION
One passenger killed in a
train accident out of a total of
469,048,629 carried 16,931,346,109,
miles is certainly a record to b0
proud of but this is what ,happened
on Canadian and American railways
in a single year, according to in,
formation 'supplied by the Bureau of
Railway Neews and Statistics, which
embraces all railways in North A,m-
erica. This outstanding showing,
Canadian National Railways , offie-
iais state; exemplifies the high deo
gree of perfection which railways
travel has reached and is the result
of `educating the employees along the
lines of safety and the institution of
safety devices.
REGRETS IT NOW
From the Hanover Post
We spoke too soon in kidding Wal-
kerton about its BO motor license
markers. A small portion of Han-
over's markers are BS.
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