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The Clinton News Record, 1934-11-22, Page 2PAGE 2 THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD Clinton News -Record With which is Incorporated TILE NEW ERA Terms of Subscription- 81.50 - per year in advance, to Canadian ad- dresses 72.00 to the U.S. or oth- er foreign countries. No paper discontinued until , all arrears are paid unless at the option of the publisher. The date to which every subscriptionis paid is denoted on the label. Advertising Rates --Transient adver- tising 12c per count line for first insertion. 8c for each subsequeni, insertion. Heading counts 2 linen. Small advertisements, not to ex- ceed one inch, such as "Wanted'',' "Lost," '~Strayed," etc., inserted ones for 35c, each subsequent 'in- eertion 15c. Rates for display ad, vertising made known, on appliea- tion. Communications intended for pub- lication must, as a guarantee of good faith, be accompanied by the name of the writer. D. E. HALL, M. R. CLARA, Proprietor. Editor, H. T. RANCE Notary Public, Conveyancer Financial, Real Estate and Fire In- surance Agent. Representing 14 Fire Insurance Companies. Division Court. Office. Clinton. Frank Fingland, B.A., LL.B. Barrister. Solicitor, Notary Pablie Successor to W. Brydone, K.C. Sloan Block — Clinton, Ott. DR. FRED G. THOMPSON Office and Residence: Ontario Street — Clinton, Ont. One door west of Anglinan Church. Phone 172 One Examined and Glasses Fitted DR. Ii. A. McINTYRE DENTIST Office over Canadian National Express, Clinton, Ont. Phone, Office, 21; House, 89. DR. F. A. AXON Dentist Graduate of C.O.D.S., Chicago and R.C.D.S., Toronto, Crown and plate work a specialty. Phone 185, Clinton, Ont. 19-4-34. D. H. McINNES CHIROPRACTOR Electro Therapist, Massage Office: Huron Street. (Few Door west of Royal, Bank). Hours --Wed. and Sat. and by appointment. FOOT CORRECTION br manipulation Sun -Ray Treatment Phone 207 GEORGE ELLIOTT Licensed Auctioneer for the County of Huron Correspondence promptly answered. !mmediate arrangements can be made for Sales Date at. The News -Record, Clinton, or by calling phone 203. Charges Moderate , and Satisfaetior Guaranteed. DOUGLAS R. NAIRN Barrister, Solicitor and Notary Public ISAAC STREET, CLINTON Office Hours: Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays -10 am. to 5 p,m.' Phone 115 3-24. THE McKILLOP MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company Head Office, Seaforth, Ont. Officers: President, Alex. Broadfoot, . -Sea- forth; Vice -President, James Con - molly, Goderich; seeeetary-tieasur, er, M. A. Reid, Seafortb. Directors: Alex. Broadfoot, Seaforth, R. R.• No. 8; James Sholdice,'Walt'ii;', 'Knox, Lolidesboro; Geo. Leonhardt, Bornholm, R. R. No. 1; John Pepper, Brueefield; James Connolly, Gode- rich; Robert Ferris, Blyth; Thomas Moylan, Seaforth, R. R. No. 5; Wm. R. Archibald, Seaforth, R. R. No. 4. Agents: W. J. Yeo, R.R. No. 8, Clinton; John Murray, Seaforth; James Watt, Blyth; Finley McKer, cher, Seaforth. Ano Rooney to be paid may be paid to the Royal Bank, Clinton; Bank of Commerce, Seaforth, ar at Calvin Cutt's Grocer+,.. Goderich. Parties desiring to effect insur- ance or transact other business will be promptly attended to on applies. Cion to any of the above officers addressed to their respective post of flcee. Losses inspected by the dire"- +tor who lives nearest the scene. CANADIAN Nit JO TIME TABLE • Trains will arrive at and depart from Clinton as follows: Buffalo and Goderich Div. Going East, depart 7.08 ,a.m. Going East depart 3.00 p.m. Going West, depart 11.50 a.m. ,Oeing West, depart 9.58. p.m. London Huron & Brace. Going North, ar. 11.84. Ive.11.54 a.m, eiMf ia. t 11.08 1M6 SYNOPSIS Ellen Church, 17 years old, finds herself alone in, the world with her artist mother's 'last • warning ringing in her ears, to "love lightly." Of the world she knew little. i All her Iife she had lived alone with her mother in an old brown house in a small rur- al community. AB her life, first as a new baby, then a bubbling .ehild,then a charming young girl, .. she had posed 'for her talented mother who sold her magazine' cover painting through an art agent in the city .. , Mrs. Church's broken Iife . . the unfaithful husband, his disappearance .. and after seventeen years of sil- ence announcement of his death was at last disclosed to Ellen. The news of the husband's death killed Mrs. Church.... Mien, alone. turned to the only contact she knew, the art agent in New York. Posing, yeas:% of posing, was her only talent so she was introduced to two leading ar- tists, Dick Alven and Sandy b acin- tosh. Both used her as a model and both fell in love with her ... but El- len, trying. to follow the warped phil- osophy of her mother to "love light- ly" resists, the thought of love. Her circle of friends is small, artists and two or three girls. au qV .t. NOW GO ON WITH TILE STORY "How," he asked, a trifle gruffly, "about love? Doesn't that enter into Your scheme of things? Doesn't it, at all., Ellen met his eyes with a chill' little expression of withdrawal. "No, Dick," she said, "it. doesn't. Not at all!" The man's hands dropped quite sud- denly to his sides. He turned sharp- ly away. "It's the party of the year, The Six Arts Ball" Sandy bad told Ellen, a few days later. "The one mad revel of. twelve whole months. 'I don't know exactly, why I'm asking you, either, Ellen. Gay is much madder to revel with!" Ellen had spread out two slender, careless hands. "Take nie or leave me, Sandy," she told the young man, indifferently. "And if you don't take Hie, get it out of your head that I'lI spend the even- ing home alone, bending over the washtubs." Sandy groaned. It was a stage groan.' "That's the deperate point of the whole thing," he told her. "If I "Sometimes, baby,' he said at last, "I'd like to smack you." i know. It will be somebody, some day." Ellen thought back to her talk with Dick. Thought back to other talks, with other men. Thought -back to a lost hour, in a garden. And then an- swered. "It won't be somebody; some -day!" she answered, and her mouth was clamped into a firm, straight line, "Anyway," he said, after quite a long while, "you'll go to the. Six Arts Bali with me. Won't you, darlin'?" !filen sat down again in front of the fireplace, and lifted the doll in her arms, and laid her 'soft cheek ,a- gains' the round top of its hard 'por- celain head,- Over that head her eyes. surveyed Sandy almost somberly. But she nodded her assent. For, after all, it was a good party the Six Arts Ball, a good party! 314 f' * ' Streamers of colored silk and snap- ping balloons, and hurrying waiters their black suits standing out, like blots of ink, against the vividness of the crowded room, The steady, sav- age thud of the jazz bandstwo of them!—at either end ofthe long dancing space. And slenderr girl bod- ies in costumes of flameand rose and green and yellow, ' Home and Apache, Columbine and Civil War belle, Span- ish dancer and Russian peasant. All jumbled together in a noisy, rhythmic, barbaric composition. Here an author -known for his gift of laughter -sat in a box. There a great painter. Making the world, and himself, forget that he had once won the Prix de Rome, here a woman whose voice raised in song brought tears to the eyes of thousands. There a financier who could toss off a cheek for a million dollars without giving it more than a passing thought. Be- ing Bohemiam, and having his own rough bit of going for a few hours out of a crowded life. Streams of colored silk and pop- ping balloons and perfume and jazz, And the throb of feet, the buzz of voices. And, in the middle of it all. Ellen Church. Dancing with Sandy and smiling her chill, provocative little smile, across his shoulder, at any man who passed. Ellen advertising her slim, lovely legs in the brief cos- tume of a page boy. Ellen with one of her much -in -demand hands spread out, on Sandy's broad back, so that other artists might see how pretty her fingers were, and remember them if ever they had a nail polish account to do, !Sandy --he was a pirate. Nothing startling about that. But cool, with a tattered shirt, and picturesque with gilt ear hoops and a scarlet silk hand- kerchief, and the eternal Vandyke. "Somebody'll cut the whiskers off,. before the evening's over," Ellen had warned. "And then what a Sampson you'll turn out to be!" "I'm a Samson, anyway, as far as you're concerned!" Sandy had assur- er her. "Sandy S. Sampson, that's Ime. Without either strength of will, or character!" Ellen laughed and danced with San- dy, and was glad that he danced well. The cartoonist tapped Ellen on the. shoulder. "Yessir, you're my baby!" he told her, and Ellen danced with him. Ile relinquished her ruefully when the financier, following him, demanded an introduction, Ellen danced with the financier and tried not to hate his hot, fat fingers on her bare arm. After all, those same fingers could write a check for a million dollars. don't take you, some hated rival will The author who built laughter es And I'll have to watch you . as you pied her in the crowd, and forgot that have a good time, .instead of beinghe had lost his own girt. .tha guy who's giving it to you the The evening went on. Ellen had good time, I mean! I don't know why removed the cap that was a part of I want to give you a good time, El -her brief page costume. len, or why anybody elsedoes, for'� "You're not a page — you're less that natter. Except Dick, who is, of than a paragraph!" Sandy had course, an idealist. You never give thrown at her once, from over the anything in return. Not even friend- !heads of, the dancers who passed to ship. How do you get that way, and from between thein. child?" 'She had. removed :the cap because Ellen was posing for an illustra-' her head was Warm and tired, and tion. "She was, in the illustration, a • ached as she was handed on young mother. Sitting before a fire- from hand to hand, like some place, rocking a baby. The fireplace pretty, mindless toy, she felt sudden- was a real one—Sandy's studio was Iy older than all the rest of the room de luxe. But the baby was a round- put together.. Suddenly more weary, headed, flat -faced doll. Holding it, El- more tired. Certain remarks that she. len. looked like a `small girl playing had made to Gay came back to her, Also certain things that her mother, three years ago, had said. "I'm different from the rest of you people!" she had told Gay. And her mother had said— "I'd rather have you sit on the window -sill, separated from the world by burs , than be jostled by the crowd. . ". Ellen, with hot -steaming bodies and sharp elbows and sliding ankles all about her, was realizing that if one is different, ene can be a part of. the crowd --• and, at the same" time, be sitting on the window -sill! house. But she didn't sound that way when she spoke, ' "I play a system, Sandy," she said. "A system that I'm beginning to think is fool -proof. I take 'every- thing that comes my way, and give. the least possible of anything ,back. If I find that anyone is too interested in me, I cut that person off the list. The fact that I'm willing to go to the Six Arts with you, shows how you Stand in my -shall we say, affec- tions?" Sandy sketched deftly for a mo- ment. ."Sometimes, baby," he said at last, The most 'popular illustrator of "I'd like to smack you, Other times I the year claimed Ellen for a' dance, have a wild desire to take you up in tried to, keep her for more. 'A radio my arms and kiss a little warmth in- J star, prancing. by, Crooned something' to you. It might as well be me, you about. "fides yoht hand, mani'aelle" only she didn't give him a chance to. do it. An actor—world' weary, with four wives in his background, started ,to ward her, across the floor. Started as ono who seeks, who thirsts, after;. youth. Ellen; seeing him come, felt a swift nausea.' "'P11 find Sandy," she said. "He's got to take me home. I'm tired of being pawed, and patted, and treated like something that's cheap. What--." But she never finished the thought, or the sentence. For suddenly he had loomed up, out of the crowd' in front of her. A tall young man, with wide shoulders and the brown of the sun on his face. And looking out of that brown, the bluest eyes that Ellen had ever seen. He smiled down at her -- very far down—for a moment, before he took her, unresisting, and without, even so munch as a by-your-l'eave,'. from the arms of her partner. Ellen,', with something odd amd disturbing in her heart, with something hot pound- ing against temple and wrist, smiled back at him. Ellen's partner, scarcely able to stand, but extremely voluble withal, protested. "Say, . how'd you get that way?" questioned the partner. "I had this Waltz with the lady-" But the young man, still smiling down at the tousled, curly top of El- len's head, danced away. Ellen, feel- ing his arm grow tight about her body, knew 'that she should have re- sisted that embrace. Even during the free and easy atmosphere of the Six Arts Ball, there were certain conven- tions -especially when the conven- And in the middle of all the gayety, was Ellen Church. tions concerned the tawdry business of picking up! She should have made some sort of a protest, whether it rang true or not. But oddly, it wasn't possible for Ellen to draw away from this young man's clasp, Not that he was holding her in a rudely tight manner,—but because she seemed to lack the strength, both physical and mental, to draw away! Why, she had scarcely the strength to speak, to an- swer his opening sentence. As she made' an effort, a real effort, to find words, her mind was saying jumbled things. "Miracles don't happen," her mind was saying. "They can't happen! One didn't allow them to happen" The young man was speaking a- gain. Repeating himself, as if he couldn't think of anything else to say. "Where," he questioned again, "have you been? All of this time!" Ellen had caught bold of her speed- ing emotions. She found it possible, at last, to answer in kind.. "Why," she answered, "I've just been sort of waiting around. Kteow- ing that if I waited long enough you'd find me. Knowing that—" The thrill that shot down .all through her spine, to the very soles of her feet! It was because the young man had kissed her. Kissed her ever so gently upon the very tap of her head. Elien pulled !back in his arms to survey him. She'd put him in his place! She'd be cool and scornful and— But her eyes didn't reflect scorn! They dwelt instead upon that brown face, Upon the crumbled Pieerot ruff, under the •brown square china They rested a moment upon the broad shoulders. And then they traveled up, to be lost in the blue, blue gaze that was bent down upon them. To be lost for so long that the young man's voice, sounding huskily, brought with it the crash that 'comes at the end of a falling -through -space dream, "Let's cut away from this place," said the voice. "See? We ---we've ' got to get acquainted) you and I. And we can't, in this mad house," Ellen danced in silence half way round, the crowded floor. She needed that breathing space of silent motion, in which to think. (Continued. Next Week) A DOG HOBO The island of ;Jersey, has a dog Which travels firstclass in the best trains by eluding the trainmen. It sneaks into a passenger scar- when no one is looking and as soon asthe train starts climbs on the seat and enjoys the scenery. At each station it crawls• under the seat, •. repeating this until it reaches its destination: THURS., NOV. 22, 1934 ANTLES of purest crystal` snow spreading over glen and vale, the smooth sparkling ice surface of rivers. and lakes and the joyous tinkling of sleigh -belle remind one that the season for beneficial and enjoyable winter sports is again at hand. Other forms of recreational activities are, for the time being, quite forgotten.' The toboggan, ski, skate and sled are taken from their summer store -house and properly conditioned for the season's festivi- ties, Children whose years scarcely exceed the finger • numerals of a hand, youths of 'teen age, adults of middle life and frequently those whose years are well extended' toward the allotted span of life, all join in the merriment of typical Canadian winter sports. During the winter season every settled area in Canada is as easily accessible by railroad as in the summer and autumn months. Many miles of provincial highways are kept free of snow enabling the motorist to reach cities, towns and villages of international repute as winter sport centres. Nearly every- where are natural sites for skiing, snowshoeing and tobogganing. Covered'rinks for hockey, skating, and curling are found in cities, towns and many smaller centres, while open-air rinks are legion. Carnival feats, including bonspiels, toboggan racing, hockey matches, figure skat- ing competitions, ski-jumping con- tests, snowshoe ptocessions, and firework displays, add greatly to the enjoyment of a Canadian winter vacation. The National Parks of Canada, Department of the Interior, Ottawa, will gladly supply information per-' taining to Canada's winter sport' attractions. DOINGS IN THE SCOUT WORLDi Iu theten years 1923 to 1933 the Boy Scouts of India increased from 30,000 to over 200,000, ' Chinese Government Backs Boy Scouts The Boy Scout Movement has been definitely established in China un- der the n-der,the auspices of the Chinese Min- istry of Education. Scouting in The Land of Egypt The Egyptian Parliament has re- cognized the Boy Scouts of that country by passing a law protecting their titles and badges. Norse Scout Code Same as Canadian The Norwegian Boy Scouts Asso- ciation has changed the order of its code of Scout Laws to correspond with that used throughout the Bra tish Empire. Swedish Prince Takes Scout Training Boy Scout leaders attending train- ing camps in England this . summer included H.R.H. Prince Gustaf A- dolf of Sweden. The Prince is Pre- sident of the Swedish Scout Coun- cil, Winter Sports at Swiss Scout Chalet The international Scout Chalet at Kandersteg, Switzerland, will be open for parties of Scouts wishing to take part in winter sports from Dec, 22 to January Gth, Stout Leaders' League of Nations Scout leaders from 15 different countries attended training courses in England this summer, They came from Armenia, Belgium, China, Egypt, Finland, Franco, Greece,' Hol- land, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland and Yugoslavia. China's Scout Movement Like British The constitution of the new Boy Scouts Association of China was modeled after that of the British Scout Association. Its General Sec- retary, Mr. Chief Teng, was sent to England to study the British plan of organization. PRAISE PROM OPPONENT Prime Minister Bennett was at his finest in the brief address which ho gave over the air last night. It was in every way an impressive, choice and perfect deliverance for such an occasion. —Toronto Daily Star, Monday. READ ALL THE ADS. IN THE NEWS -RECORD —IT WILL PAY YOtI— I T1 UNT Many a non -advertising retailer keeps back from advertising just because he feels that it is nec- essary to advertise in a big way and because he is not ready to advertise in a big way. To keep back from our newspaper until you are ready to use big space is just as foolish as would be keeping a child out of school until it had the ability to pass its ma- triculation examination. Beginners in every form of enterprise need to go warily; until experience and practice and growing ability warrant them to attempt large!' things, they should proceed cautious- ly. It will pay some retailers to use classified ad- vertisements and small spaces of 2 and 3 inches. These little advertisements will surely get seen and read by newspaper readers. Make small advertise-" xnents. offer special merchandise. Change them fre- quently. A quick succession of little advertisments, everyone of which is alive, will of a certainty effect sales—will attract new customers. The thing to be frightened of is dumbness: a retail store which does not talk to the public by means of newspaper adver- tisements misses a lot of`business. The public goes where it is invited to go. El THE. CLINTON NEWS -RECD ¢ D A FINE MEDIUM FOR ADVERTISING --READ ,WS. IN MS JSSUE PHONE 4