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The Clinton News Record, 1934-03-15, Page 3THURS., MARCH 15, 1934 ME u ON *NEWS - It is customary to speak of tsn- / happy Ireland but the adjective is misapplied. Her history is unhappy but her pedple are not. Even the poorest are not unhappy. On the contrary, they are light-hearted, carefree. Their's are the simple pleasures that always please. They get fun even •out of their spites and fights, and give fun too. No other race •has added so much to the gaiety of nations. Their jokes and bulls havebeen staple commodities for centuries. Smiles and tears 'chase each other through Irish song and literature. Let's wear a shamrock on the 17th in honor of a distinctive race that has furnished the world with so. much merriment and so many men of light and leading. emoilEma The world will not be 'bored to ennui so long as the race survives. The commonplace has no part in the national character. What the Irish do and say may be inconsistent but it won't be dull. The country , is hard to govern because it is a nation of poets, rebels against the conven- tions and the established order of things. The English may be pard- oned for failing te,govern it harmon- iously when the Irish themselves cannot do it. Like Father O'Flynn, they have a way wid 'em even in heaven where the harp that once through' Tara's halls will be the lead- ing instrument in the orchestra, or there'll be the divil to pay, so there will ( Those who expect something like the N.R.A. to be put into effect by the Federal government overlook the fact that the provinces have certain rights and powers granted them by the constitution, of which they are very jealous. For instance, they al- one have power to govern hours and Wages of labor, and if the federal government should attempt to instal codes for industries it would find its action contested in the courts. Perhaps, however, the province might be induced to agree to con- certed action in carrying out such.a programme, but unanimity among the Legislatures can hardly be ex- pected. What'is needed is a general overhauling of the B.N.A. Act. e�roaa.� Win. L. Phelps says that a man be - *ins to grow old when he ceases to look forward. He will not grow much older, however, if, at the inter- seetions,.he does not look to the right and left as well. erisniessodi ists in declaring war 'against the Spanish Fascists. Death is defeat when it conies unnecessarily. "Better death than defeat," says the leader of the Spanish Contniun- An American predicts that ,the world will end in February 1937. What we are hoping is that bankers will lend by that time. emszawsi Few industries suffered more in the past few years than the lumber. industry. It was looking up last fall and lumbermen made prepara- tions for extensive operations. Labor agitators, allegedly Communistic,. got busy at once and • were having some success when winter itself took a hand hi the game. The heavy snowfall was even more effectual than labor agitation in reducing the winter cut, thereby decreasing em- ployment and increasing the lumber - men's liabilities. When lumbermen get busy next fall the same labor agencies will also get busy. They don't want work for themselves or for others. All they want is to make trouble. e We feel sympathy .for any man who when he has had a drink or two meets with an accident while driv- ing a car. He might have met with the sante accident even if he did not have a drink or two, but the law is very properly more severe upon him if he is smelling of liquor. The safe plan is not to take a drink if you are to drive a car. In saying, this we are not giving advice we do not take. We never drive a car. In an action against a stock sales- man a woman alleges that in a series of stock transactions he gypped her out of every dollar she possessed. The last of the series was of course the finishing touch. c Stavitsky, whose pawnshop scan- dal overthrew a French government and started riots in Paris that look- ed like revolution, was a Russian whose swindles had landed him in jail twice and caused the suicide of his respectable father, also a victim of the son's swindles. With such a known record we could not under- stand how .men high up in French official position 1)eeame linked up in his adventures which were all frauds, but since his suicide his widow has been arrested and her picture ap- pears in the papers. She is very good-looking. isamme You wouldn't think so sometimes, but Toronto has been a city for a hundred years. l ly that when the term of, the present Lieut. -Governor expires, three year's hence, they will be abolished. (But alas and alack, forty long years have gone by and the end is not yet.—Ed.) easionme WHEN THE PRESENT CENTURY WAS YOUNG Fiiorn. The News -Record, Mar. 18th, 1909: Mr. S. G. Plummer, while on his way to church last Sunday slipped and fell with such violence that he has since been confined to his bed. Many members of the Ladies' Aid and the W. M. S. of Ontario street church assembled at the parsonage, on Tuesday evening and surprised Mrs. (Rev.) W. E. Kerr with an ex- quisite cabinet of silver cutlery. The pesentation was made by Mrs. John Gibbings, president of the Ladies' Aid, the address being read by Mrs.. E. C. Courtice, president of the W. M. S. Hogs are seven dollars on the local market this week. A number of the citizens will ten- der a complimentry banquet to F. R. Hodgens and R. Holmes on Friday evening ofnext week. Seven years ago this month Wes- ley church was dedicated, the offici ating clergyman on that occasion being Rev. James Livingstone, then president of the London Conference . Last Sunday anniversary , ser- vices were held with Mr. Livingstone again the preacher of the day, with an attendance which almost equalled that of the opening. Forty-two years ago last Friday, the Andrews fancily located in Clin- ton, coming from Burritt's Rapids on the River Rideau,. near Ottawa, Long since 117r. and Mrs, Andrews, Sr., joined the Great Majority and of their .family their three sons S. J., C. A. and H. F., still live here and are much respected residents of the town in:which they have resided for so many years. Our worthy pol- ice magistrate, What Clinton was Doing in The Gay Nineties DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT HAP PENED DURING TIM LAST DE- CADE OF THE OLD CENTURY? From The News -•Record, Mar. 14th, L894: Last Saturday Messrs. Mason and McGregor of Brucefield shipped two car loads of horses to Britain . The prices ranged from $80 to $150 each. 'The exceedingly fine weather of the past coupleof weeks has caused many old settlers to make remarks about the weather in years gone by. Councillor Plummer inform us that twenty-six years ago Mr. George Snell of Hullett and the late Mr. Wm. Shipley of the Huron • road were ploughing on 1VIarch 7th and that the former had nearly all his grain sowed the same month, About the 20th of the month snow came on again and there was good sleighing. for a time . . . Mr. George Layton of Tuckersmith states that farmers in that township were ploughing on the eighth of the present month. • In Plattsville, on Wednesday, Mar. 7th, by the Rev. W. H. John- ston of Chesterfield, Capt. A. H. Senghas of Marine City, Mich., • to Aggie E., daughter of Mn G. D. Gil- christ of Clinton. John A. Cooper, B.A., L.L.B.,has a splendid article in the Canadian Magazine on "The Canadian Premier and the United States President." The writer is a son of Mr. Wm. Coop- er, town, and at one time taught school on the Bayfield line, Goderich Township. Capt. Rance will take part in the drama, "Troublesome Times in Ire, land," to be given in Goderich by Prof. Hart. A meeting was held on Monday evening to organize a bowling club W. McLean, secretary; D. L. Mac- pherson, treasurer. Ensign David Creighton Moore, an old Clinton boy but now of Windsor, and Lieut. Annie May Cornell of Lindsay were inarried at Windsor on Monday. The ceremony took place in St. Andrew's Presbyterian church, Commandant Booth officiating. This week we chronicle the sad death of ane of Clinton's best known citizens in the person of Mr. Joseph Whitehead. Mr, Whitehead was the pioneer railroad man in Canada and had made his home in Clinton for forty years . . Next week we shall endeavour to give our readers a full history of his life. From The New Era, Mar. 16th, 1894: The town flag has been flying at half mast since Monday in respect to the late Joseph Whitehead. Mr, John Irwin of Decator, I11., son of Mr. R. Irwin, is home on a visit, accompanied by his wife, and children. "Jack" is a popular rail- way conductorr in the west. The electric lights have been put in the town hall and entry. WHAT OTHER NEWSPAPERS ARE SAYING FIFTY PERCENT. WASTE OF TIME Dr. Win. Boyd, head of the ,Depart; ment of Education, Glasgow Univer- sity, who has been investigating the Canadian school system, says: "The secondary school curriculum in Can- ada is a fifty per cent waste of time, and I am prepared to raise the per- centage above fifty for university students. Canadian educationists are over -loading the secondary school curriculum with subjects that do not fit the students for the busi- ness of living.... I sometimes think' teachers are the only people in schools who are learning anything. Schools ae they exist now in Canada are not good enough. They are not producing the kind of people the world needs." —iSt, . Marys Journal -.Argus. esernaiMie GOOD NEWS The decision of Iron. Leopold Mac- auley, Minister of Highways for the Province o£ Ontario, to take over. the portion of the Bluewater High- way from Thedford to Goderich is good news not only forthose living on that portion of the road but also for the people of Kincardine. True, it does not pave the stretch of road between Kincardine and Goderich, but it does make the chances of hav- ing this piece of road paved much brighter than they have been for some time. —Kincardine Review -Reporter. MR. S. J. ANDREWS is the oldest of the three. The home of Mr. Thos. Mason was the scene of a quiet wedding yester- day when his only daughter, Annie Alberta, was united in marriage to Mr. James A. Haber o8 Detroit , - , The ceremony was conducted by the Rev. 'P1. J. Jolliffe in the presence of about twenty guests. Mr. G. E. Hall of The News -Record staff is laid up with an attack of neuralgia. •mllinwi THEFT AT ST. PETER'S RECTORY On Sunday, while Rev. Father Lowry was conducting the evening service in St. Peter's church, a thief, after gaining entrance to the rectory by a cellar window, stole a sum . of money said to be in the neighbor- hood of $30, from a drawer in the desk in Father Lowry's study. The money was in silver, chiefly twenty- five cent :pieces. Collection in en- velopes and loose change that was IS IT YOUR FAULT PEOPLE on plates on the desk was not dis, turbed. Provincial police were noti- fied shortly after midnight and in- The Editor and Publisher, an out- vestigated • the smatter. Footprints` in the snow were the only `clues, as fingerprints could be found along the course that must of necessity have been followed by the thief from cellar to 'study. A suspect was ap- prehended on Monday morning but. several hours questioning failed to shake his, story.-Goderich Signal. 1YassIisme PAVEMENT REGULATIONS NEEDED With the coming of warm spring, weather, some roads will dry out quickly, while others, where the frost has gone down, will be heaved upside down. Even the paved highways, are like- ly to suffer severely.. Already in many places the frost has heaved the cement, and there is grave dan- ger of their foundations being utter- ly ruined unless particular pains are taken this spring to regulate the truck and motor traffic. -Seaforth Expositor. naelinean CHANGE OF MENU NEEDED At the council 'meeting on Monday night someone mentioned that com- plaints were being' made [by the patrons of the Public Library about the odor of the cooking soup per- meating to the library from the soup kitchen below. Cook Barry, who concocts the appetizing dish for the transients states that if it were not for the cost he would be glad to serve bologna and potatoes instead, and so eliminate the odor. He had tried 'that before and the Welfare Board had found, it too expensive. If some kind-hearted citizen would don- ate a bag of potatoes the chef would be glad to change the menu, the cost of fuel would be lessened and, the sensitive nostrils of readers a- bove would not be offended by the aroma of soup. While soup is mighty appetizing on a cold winter day, it is nice to have a change, so send some spuds.—Listowel Banner. ewe Fom The New Era, Mar. 18th, 1909: Mr. Harry Charlesworth left for the west on Tuesday morning. He went by way of the United States and will visit his old home in Dakota on the way. It is currently reported that the G. T. R. will build a new stating this year, to be erected at the Y. Inspector Robb says that the av- erage salaries paid the assistants in the various urban schools are as for, lows: Clinton, ,$381; Seaforth, $383; Wingham, $391 and Blyth $393. Clin- ton appears to be the lowest of the lot. The offf c,ers and ex -officers 'of the 33rd battalion, together with their friends, will hold a dinner at the Rattenbury house, Clinton, on the evening of Mar. 24th. On March 13th a popular young Clintonian, Mr. James A. Manning, son of Mr. Walter Manning, and an equally popular resident of Tucker smith, Miss Eudora Crich, daugh- ter of Mr. Louis Crich of the Huron road, were made man and wife'. Rev. Mr. Kerr performed the cere- mony. They will reside in town and the very best wishes of their many friends are extended to them. Easter falls this : year. on March 25th, the earliest date for many years. It will be nearly one hundred years (before it again falls on this date, 1969, 2035, 2046, 2957, 2103, 2114, 2125 and 2198. The earliest date on which Easter tan fall is March 22nd and the last Easters on this date were: 1693, 1716 and 1818, but so early an Easter will. not come again until 1970. An Editorial:—The vote in the LocalHouse to abolish the expense of the. Lieut. -Governor's residence . , , Officers J. P. Tisdall, president, stood 50 to 32. It is altogether like- SHOP ELSEWHERE? MAGE3 standing trade magazine, published in New York, carries an interesting story as a Canadian achievement, It reports that the T. Eaton Co, and the Rob. Simpson Co. of Toronto use more newspaper advertising annually than any other store on the contin- ent. The two . •'companies between them used 12,428,529 lines in the four Toronto newspapers in one year,; their daily average in the evening newspapers alone being three and one-half full. pages for each store for every publication day in the year. The article also comments on the fact that the two Toronto evening papres recently issued 'a full sixteen- page section for onerof these stores,' the largest advertisement published by any one store in any daily news- paper in the United States or Can- ada. To the man who does not believe it pays to advertise this must seem a colossal waste of money, but 'does there really exist such a man? It seems quite apparent that the huge and successful business carried on by these two stores is due to their liberal . and consistent use of adver- tising space. In the figures quoted there is a lesson for the mail' who is sitting on the sidelines waiting for business to come to him. People buy now- where they are invited to buy, The merchant whodoes not ask them to buyat his store by ad- vertising in his local newspaper should have no criticism to make of those who shop elsewhere. —Bowmanville Statesman. passer-by-- The asser-by—The dinosaur, a beast most fierce: and gross. But, wait! 'It moves and changes;:: now, look closet It is a man! Ile laughs to see our• fear. What have we now? A white and' graceful deer! Who, while we watch entranced;., turns to a knight On prancing steed, the two all gleam- ing white•; See this next mass of fluffy white take shape! What is it but a great big ugly aper Ab! Clap your hands! He's now a ( woolly sheep, Who frolics in the sky with bounding - leap; nyfHis awkward legs are slim as any- 1 fawn; But there, he's vanished now,, the - lamb is gone. SKY CIRCUS Across a sky of sheerest, clearest blue The actors pass — a clowning tum- bling crew; A. gargoyle there with puffy whiten- ed face; A dancer here with frilly gown of lace; Here comes a poodle dog with mon- ster head And tail too small—a strange new quadruped! Yet ere he passes slowly from the stage Turns to a bison, with head bent in rage. He's gone! And now against the sit+ ken sky A dread thing comes — a clumsy So single file the circus journeyer forth, The pageant of the sky that travels- north. ravel,north. Marjorie Dugdale Ashe- POOLING THE CATS A seven-year-old lad at Blyth- wood, Ont,, school designedthefollow ing to fool marauding eats, as part of the birdhouse he built during they Christmas holidays. It is simple but effective, The birdhouse is suspend -- ed by a wire from the branch of a tree. Attached to the wire, a few- inches ewinches above the bird residence, is sr round plate or pan, so fixed that it sits on a level, but when the cat, eyeing the bird, jumps to this plate, as a landing place, the plate slips sideways and the feline marauder - falls to earth. . LADY -AT -LARGE "Lady," said the policeman, who had motioned her to stop, "how long do you expect to be out?" "What do you mean by that ques- tion?" she demanded indignantly. "Well," he replied sarcastically, "there are a couple of thousand oth- er motorists who would like to use this street after you get through with it." READ THE ADVERTISEMENTS IN THE NEWS -RECORD TOOK THE HINT, An excursion train had stopped un- expectedly at a little country station and the guard, stretching his legs on the platform, observed smoke issuing', from the window of a carriage lab- elled K'Non-Smoking." He opened the doer and, after surveying six guilty -looking ' holiday-makers, re- marked: "Gentlemen, there are two rules en this line which are repeat- edly broken. First, smoking is for- bidden in carriages not set aside for that purpose. Secondly, the Com- paay's servants may not accept grat- uities. You have already broken one of these rules." There was another breach of the regulations. -The Morning Post. Local Theo Owe You Sales Assistance You know thiroughiy 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 to B'e or C's soup; D's shoes are equal to E's or F's shoes; G's radio sets are the equal to 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 ir- regular customers,and they want to use your distribution 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 a series of local advertisements, to be pub- lished in this newspaper? They sap that they will provide you with plenty of window and counter display material, and printed matter; but quite too 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 nationally -advertised magazines; 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 is to be put on your shoulders, If it is right to use big city dailies and na- tionally- circulated magazines then, by the same token, it is right to use local weekly newspa- pers! It is no compliment to you as a retailer or to the buyers of this town and ,territory for a national advertiser to decline to advertise his product in this newspaper. You can get much more advertising for your store and stock than you are now getting, if you insist, as a condition of stocking a particu- lao pooduct, that it be locally advertised in this newspaper. (N.B.; Show this advertisement to mem 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). The Clinton Thews -Record. $1.50 a year. Worth More