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The Clinton News Record, 1935-09-05, Page 3'HURS., 'SEPT. 5, 1935 THE CLINTON NEWS-RECORIJ What Clinton was Doing in The Gay '`Nineties N YOU REMEMDER WHAT HAPPENED DURING TSE (:ABT DE- CADE OF THE OLD CENTURY? From The News -Record, .Sept. 4th, WHEN THE PRESENT CENTURY 1895: The King Gardener-IYseph Allison is the king of gardeners in Huron County. . . He has tomatoes 18 inches in circumference and turnips three feet in circumference. Through the energy of Messrs. Riter, Capt. Combe, Lieut. McTag- gart and Chief Wheatley the track on Recreation Park has been greys- ly improved. The Chief passed a- round a subscription list and at 25c each enough cash was raised to en- gage several men and a couple of teams, Private postcards are not trans- missable to the United States. Bayfield Fall Fair will be held on the 10th and llth of October.. From The New Era, Sept. 6th, 1895: Last week we noticed many fields of fall wheat where the blades were four or five inches tall. That is very unusual for August. The following are the ModeItes attending the Clinton Model School: Misses Ai tdheson, 1Bell, Bentley, Crich, Consitt, Caves, Doherty, Jam- ieson, Higgins, Murch, McNaughton, McCutcheon, 'McCallum, Peterson, Padfield] Sheppard, Turner, Van- stone,i Miesslrs1 Brecidonridges Brad - win, Courtice, Creech, Campbell, Duff, Hartley; Hogan, Seckel, Rus- sell, Smith, Whidden and Dunlop. Labor Day:—(Business generally was suspended Monday although the important industries such as the Or- gan Factory, Fair's Mill, Foundry, etc., found it necessary to run as usual. The Collegiate gave instruc- tion for half a day, observing the af- ternoon as a holiday. The band came out in the afternoon and gave sever- al popular and well -executed selec- tions. Mr. T. Mower Martin, Canadian's greatest landscape artist was lately at work near Clinton and his sket- ches on the Bayfield river are now hanging in the art department of the Industrial Fair at Toronto. WAS YOUNG From The News -Record, Sept. 8th, 1910: Douglas Stewart won the Prince of Wales and First Edward Blake Schol- arships for General Proficiency and the First Garter Scholarship this year. i Rev. R. W. Millyard of Forest, Ont., President of the London Con- ference of the Methodist Church, died in Fort William Hospital on Sept.` 6th, having been taken ill on his way home from the General Con- ference in Winnipeg. It was with a shock of regret that the parishioners of Rev. Father Han- lon heard the announcement on Sun- day of the intended removal of their priest to another field of labor - . He removes to Lucan. A happy event occured at Sunny- side Farm, the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Stephenson, on the London Road, yesterday, when their eldest daughter, Eva S., became the bride of Mr. Douglas G. Wheeler. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. T. W. Casens. From The New Era, !Sept. 8th, 1910: A quiet wedding was celebrated on Thursday, last at the Ontario street Methodist parsonage when Rev. T. W. Cosens united in marriage 'Miss Lucy Lockwood, daughter of Mr. Fred Lockwood of town, and Jseph William Swan of Goderich township. While Messrs. ' Russell Harland and Harry Fitzsimons were pulling up an awning Thursday evening last one of the ropes broke with the re- sult that one of the irons struck Rus- sell on the head, inflicting a severe scalp wound.... It takes a stout rope to withstand the muscles of the above-named gentlemen, as they are no light weights. Somebody should get the ear of the Government and have a clock placed in the Postoffice tower. WHAT OTHER NEWSPAPERS ARE SAYING • SUN TANNERS BEWARE! Intense sunlight has the same ef- fect on the body as it has on the top of an automobile. It causes dehy- dration and premature wrinkling. —Hamilton Herald. LAKES HAVE TIDES The Walkerton Herald -Times, in commenting on a sudden rise of the water level on Lake Huron, remarks that there are no tides on the inland lakes. This is a common belied but is incorrect. Government engineers studying the Great Lakes of recent years state that there is a tide which affects all of them in greater or less degree. It is said not to be regular and predictable like the tides of the ocean but it is there none the less. In addition there are curious move- ment of the surface water due to winds, sun and currents. ---!Goderich Signal. STORE IS ENTERED SMALL CHANGE STOLEN .Sometime during the early hours of Tuesday morning the general store of Jones & May was entered and after forcing the cash register a small amount of loose change was stolen. As far as could be learned little or nothing else had been dis- turbed, Entry was made .to the building through a man -hole in the roof. The intruder with the aid of a short ladder had climbed to the roof of an adjoining building and pulling the ladder up after him used it to climb the higher walls. After open- ing the manhole the thief was able to let himself down with a rope. The blinds on the windows at the rear of the store were raised to admit what tight there was. After rifling the register the thief was able to unlock one of the doors and let himself out. PAGE S vL'meei'eieefi'i1 '■'h riew o r'mi i r'i mVM1iLY■'S,' w■'■'■ DOINGS IN THE SCOT YOUR WORLD AND M1NE • { by JOHN C. KIRKWOOD i (Copyright) sisal Yeess■'iY■ ewes .'i AssesseA'■W■'mossem.Y■'■Y tries ly reflect upon what might happen if Nature turned her hand toward the production of bigger and better pests. Yet something of the kind is happening in the insect world if we are to believe Winnipeg despatches, A. mosquito has made its appearance there which has so far improved up- on the ordinary mosquito bite—from the mosquito point of view—that it can remove a small segment of the human form divine with every nip. Evidently, here is something new, a grafting of the black-fle bite tech- nique upon that blight of the Cana- dian verandah, the ordinary house mosquito, that ventures where the black -fly dare not show its head. The next step is manifestly to improve the mobility of • this new type pest. Our good old-fashioned mosquito is a bit slow on the wing and even slow. er a -foot,— its most serious handi- cap in the work of rendering human life miserable. Armed with a black- fly bite and the horse -fly's nimble- ness and speed of wing, and perhaps slightly streamlined, next year's model of the mosquito ought to be something that will lift Canada out of the depression,—or anything else it may be sitting in. If man can produce the dattalo and the ugli, why, should Nature not come back with a patent mosquito? —Montreal Daily Star. An investigation revealed that en- trance had also been made to the basement of B. W. F. Beavers' hard- ware. Mr. Beavers' store adjoins that of Jones & May. Entrance was made through a coat shute into the cellar but as the way into the }Hain part of the store was barred " the would-be thief departed without any loot. The police are working on the ,ease. --'Exeter Times -Advocate. DARK THOUGHT FOR 1936 While we naturally admire the hor- ticultural or biological expert with a taste for research who by combining the best qualities of differing fruits gives us a new and better fruit, or by careful selection and breeding furnishes us with thicker and tender- er beefsteaks, we may not sufficient. WORLD The 2nd World Rover Meet, held in Sweden in July, was attended by'. �■hti■�.� Rover ,Scouts from 24 different coup A young Canadian university grad- for they in all certainty have tra uate who was visiting in London, England, heard Lord Beaverbrook, himself a Canadian, address a body of advertising men, and he wished, at the close of the meeting, to "shake hands" with his lordship. Now shak- ing hands with notables is much the same as seeking autographs and col- lecting souvenirs. Some of us like to be able to say, "I have shaken hands with the Prince of Wales"—or Lloyd George, or President Wilson, or Wilfred Laurier. It is understood, of course, that the great man was al- most totally unconscious of us. Shak- ing bands, so' far as he was con- cerned, was almost mechanical; he may have been standing for the very purpose of shaking hands with hun- dreds or thousands of passers-by—at some reception, for example. And here let me tell a story whose truth I do not vouch for. It is that Presi- dent Abraham Lincoln, who had to shake hands with thousands and tens of thousands, used to have somebody stand close behind him who, by some method or other, in a concealed way, substituted his hand for that of Lin- coln; and this substituter was per- iodically renewed as he became fa- tigued! It is a good idea, anyway! I suppose that it can be said of most of us that we are eager to meet business way, or in a political way, or in an intellectual way. But, speak- ing for myself, I would feel very un- comfortable if I were in the company of Winston Churchill, or Lord Robert Cecil, or Stanley Baldwin, or R. B. Bennett or George Bernard Shaw, or Sir William Mulock. We would be on different levels. What could I say that would .be worthy of their at- tention or interest? I would either have to remain dumb or else talk a- bout trivial things .In any event I would be exposing, painfully to me, my mediocity. The truth is that we feel at ease only when we are with our equals socially and intellectually Let me imagine myself in the company of men and women of high birth and station, say in England—a guest in their home, and to whom they are disposed to show some spe- cial attention for some reason. What could we talk about? Places? I fear that I would be mute before them, ARE WE TO HAVE A QUIET ELECTION? When Mr. Bennett set the election date for October 14th, he seems to have done more than postpone Thanksgiving Day. It would appear as if he had post- poned the election as well. Elea. tion talk, so brisk and fervid for a time, seems to have all died down. The elections, one might suppose, were months instead of weeks away. Everyone seems to be resting. Or, perhaps, the people have made up their minds. Have ceased to think, or talk, or Listen to election talk. Or, perhaps, the Alberta election has usurped the whole stage. Has made other elections pale into insig- nificance. done for us by the political spell- binders. That has happened before, you know. Or do you? —+Seaforth Expositor. yelled far more than I have done, and know placed on more than one con- tinent far better than I do, And what could I say about places which would interest them.? Persons? Or whom could I talk? Their acquain- tance with persons exceeds mine im- measurably; and their 'acquaintance. is withpersons whom I do not know at all, and is probably intimate. Books? f would not like to tell a- bout the books which'I should like to speak. Books of travel, of bio- graphy, of science, of political signi- ficance, of philosophy—I have not read many of them, and I have not, made myself competent to speak of them intelligently. If I began to speak of books, or if they began to speak of books, my paucity of know- ledge would be shameful. About Canada? I might feel more at home on this subdect, but if my hosts and hostesses began to ask me questions, I might find myself stumbling, for my knowledge of my own country is so superficial, so scandelously defic- ient. About literature -about the art of the novel, of biography, of poetry? I would have to be dumb. About politics? My views would be worthless, because my informatios would be scanty. "UNFIT FOR HEAVY WORK" When Premier Hepburn decided that all ablesbodied single young men must go to work, instead of living "on relief," Toronto made a medical examination of 1,350 men on the lists there, and the published results must prove amazing to many people. It was found that only about one- quarter of the men (360) were fit to do heavy labor, while another quar- ter (340) could do no work at all, and the other half (650) were classified as able to do only light work. Since farm work was not placed in the lat- ter class, it was found that three- quarters of the men were unfit for farm work. The result set us to thinking what would happen if medical examiners went through the townships sur- rounding Hanover or even through one of the local factories. We fear many of the farmers and working- men around here would surprise the medicos, Why, we know farmers with only one hand, others with crip- pled legs, some who have suffered slight paralytic strokes, others who are so crippled with rheumatism that they can hardly straighten up at times—+yet all of them are carrying on heavy farm, work. If a medico gave them even a cursory examina- tion, xamination, he would declare they were not fit for heavy work. And if he went on to examine their teeth, tonsils, liver, stomach, appendix or heart, or looked at their bald or greying heads, and considered their ages of any- where from fifty to seventy years or more, he wouldn't know how they do It. But they do. The same thing ap- plies in town. There are men who are rheumatic, asthmatic, or maybe leth- argic, but they keep on working`ev- ery day. Some are excessively over- weight at 250 pounds, others are frail and skinny; some are anaemic, others have a blood pressure that would send chills up the spine of any exam- iner. Yet, according to the Toronto stat- istics, three-quarters of the single men on relief there are unfit for •hea- vy work and one-quarterare not fit for any kind of work. The figures seem preposterous. We venture to say that 75 per cent. of the men would turn their hand to farming or any other occupation If they bad to, Al medical examination might indi- cate that they were physically unfit for such work, but there are count. less farmers and workingmen car- rying on successfully today who. could never rate 100 per cent in a physical examination. hold them confidently and with per- -Hanover Post. ceived ability. Whatever the cause, election talk seems to be dead -for the present, at least. But don't worry. I.t will come back again. When the leaders get on the radio, and the lieutenants get on the stump, things will brighten up. This is only a lull in the battle, and even if it continues for some time to come, it won't do much harm. It even might do some good, by giv- ing us a quiet time in which to do our own thinking instead of having it Prairie Genaroeity Neighbourly donations of food for the Summer's camp of an Alberta Boy Scout troop included a whole sheep, which it was hoped "would last the boys a couple of days." An- other ,troop was loaned ' a cow. Of a certainty I would be glad to escape from the company of those so far above and beyond me in know- ledge and in the culture which comes from travel and reading and meeting people of eminence or authority or achievement. My manners might be passable—though even in regard to them, I would not feel assurance; and my clothes might be quite correct; but I would be revealed to be cheap. My character and anything which I may have done to win me recognition in my own small world, would be quite uninteresting to those among whom ,I was. And I would leave them, probably humiliated by the consciousness of my own nothing- ness, eager to get back into the com- pany of my social and intellectual e- quals—of those whose world of in- terest and experience corresponds with my own. What most of us like to do, when we meet others who may have been strangers to us, is to talk about our- selves, and when we talk about our- selves, we try to make ourselves im portant—possibly by telling of our distinguished relatives or friends, or about something which we have done. Also we try to discover if we have mutual acquaintances, and if we do succeed in doing so, we feel very happy and expansive. We may try to convey the impression that we hold important positions, or have social eminence, or have influence. But our conversation is likely to revolve on the axis of ourselves. The truth is that the pantry of our life is pret- ty bare. Our minds are not stored with sound knowledge on anything. We discover, when we meet strang- ers with whom we may have conver- sation, that we cannot talk confid- ently and informally on many sub- jects about which we ought to be ab- le to talk. Our laziness of mind, our misuse of time, are made apparent. Our only relief may be to discover that those with whom we talk are as we ourselves are—that they are as eager to talk about themselves, their relations and acquaintances, their performances as we are. Cambridge Sea Rovers Six Cambridge University Rover Sea Scouts sailed in a small schooner to attend the World Rover Scout Meet in .Sweden. They were given a most friendly reception during their passage through the German Kiel Canal. A Scout Camp For 509 Non -Scouts 500 boys, non -Scouts, from the dis- tressed areas of Monmouthshire and South Wales, were given a free ten days' Scout camp outing at Dawlish, South Devon, through the co-opera- tion of the King George Jubilee Trust, Major Ralph Raynor and dis- trict Scouters. The boys came in two batches of 250. India Scouts at Quake Disaster Further news from the earthquake disaster at Quetta, India, emphas- sizes the splendid work done by Indian Boy Scouts following the catastro- phe. A. party of 50 Rovers came up from Lahore, to offer their services, and, in gas masks, were used to re- cover bodies of the dead. When ex- hausted they were relieved by a se- cond 50. The Boy Scouts of Sierra Leone This was the tribute paid the na- tive Boy Scouts of Sierra Leone, East Africa, by a woman round -the - world tourist: "I don't think I shall ever forget their jolly chocolate - coloured faces or the way they look- ed after us. At other places we had been pestered by people who Wanted to sell us things or act as guides. At Sierra Leone a party or Scouts met the boat, kept off troublesome people, showed us a- round, and refused to take a tip. We were two women traveling alone, and my sister was an invalid. You, can imagine how thankful we were for those Stouts,' It all boils down to this, each of us has a level—a social level, an exper- ience level, and our tendency is to establish contacts and develop our friendships among those whose level is the same as our own. I and not saying that we should not try to raise the level of our social, intellec- tual and business associations. On the contrary, I incline to the view that we should quite definitely be raising our level ---should be prepar- ing ourselves, studiously. and objec- tively, to be at ease with those above us in metal status, in intellectual in- terest and culture, and in business a- chievement and understanding. We cannot know everything, but we should be extremely well informed— authoritatively informed—on some one thing. This knowledge may per- tain to agriculture or horticulture, to animal husbandry, to the history of Canada, or to a particular period of history; to some division of liter- ature; to some aspect of industry; or to politics. It may be quite impos- sible for us to do much travelling, but there is nothing under the sun which can prevent us from the ac- quirement of knowledge and under- standing. It is an obligation on us all, if we have ambitions, to fit ourselves to mingle with and to talk with those above us in knowledge or understands ing in the apiecal field of our inter- est. If we want social advancement, then we have to prepare ourselves for equality with those of the social level to which we would rise. The point which I am trying to make is: There are levels --!social, in- tellectual, business, cultural—Which we ought not aspire to unless we are able, by definite preparation, to NEWS OF HAPPENINGS IN THE COUNTY AND DISTRICT K O.DEEIOH: The Hast surviving member of one of •Huron County's oldest families, in the person of Eli- za Jane Smyth, widow of Charles Durnin, passed away on Aug. 24th in her 77th year. She had been in poor health the last two months. She was born and raised in West Wawanosh daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William John Smyth. Her mother was born at Kincardine, her father came from Ireland. She was married more than 60 years ago to Mr. Durnin and farmed with him in West Wawanosh for 20 years, removing to Goderich then Lucknow, where her husband died 11 years ago. For the last eight years she had been living with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Sammersall, Goderich Township. Besides her daughter, a son, Victor, three grandchildren and great -,grandchildren survives. She was a member of Victoria Street United Church, Goderich. HENSALL: Robert McArthur, of Hensall, died on Aug. 24th at the home of his daughter, Mrs. P. A. Manson, in his 85th year. Deceased was one of the pioneer residents of the district and an elder in the Pres- byterian church. Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Manson and Mrs. R. Lamont,' of Zurich; Mrs. S. Mac- Queen, of Hensall; Mrs. J. D. Reid, of -London, and two sons, Sydney and Ray, of. Hensall. The funeral, con- ducted by Rev. W4 A. Young, was held from Carmel Presbyterian Church, Hensall, on Monday at 2 p.m. Interment in •Hensall Union Cemetery. HISTORIC REPORTS There is a dramatic interest that belongs to quick replies. Flashes of resourcefulness in emergencies are always arresting, and especially so when seasoned with humor. The richest source of stories of striking answers is perhaps public life, partly because there are more peocle to hear and report them, partly because greatpersonages, places or •events with which we are already familiar, are themselves helps to keep the newly -heard anecdote permanently remembered. From this, mine, let us gather a few gems. On a public occasion at the Court of St. Jaines, the Duke of Wellington �SNAPS410T CU 1 L School's Ahead. Snapshoot When You Go.' i,'pi, o+ sHi" In Tater years, when you are an alumnus, you will get your greatest egjoy- ment as you look back over the pictures you snapped at school. WITH the opening of schools a TY new season arrives forsnap- shooting and what a paradise for the boy or girl who owns a camera. Whether you go to a little country school with one room or a great uni- versity your opportunity for snap - shooting is unlimited, providing you use your eyes and the proper amount of good judgment. Just as a news- paper reporter develops a "nose for news" just so you should develop an "eye for snapshots." There are, of course, the obvious shots of the school building or build- ings, as the case may be, and you will want them; but what about pic- tures of new classmates, teachers, old friends, baseball and football practice, the basketball team leav- ing for a game out of town and many other .interesting story -telling pic- tures? It doesn't make any difference what kind of a camera you have you can take pictures under certain conditions with a dollar box camera that, for record purposes, are about as good as those made with an ex- pensive folding model. Did you ever think of taking ac- tion pictures with a box camera? It can be done. Suppose you are sitting in the grandstand watching an excit- ing football or baseball game. You anticipate an exciting play—full of action. If the light is good and you are two hundred or more feet from largement of the point of interest in the snapshot will give you a picture you will be proud to show to your friends. When taking action pictures with, a box camera don't snap the picture while the subject is whizzing direct- ly across your line of vision. Always shoot at an angle of approximately 45 degrees. For those who are not familiar with diaphragm openings and shut- ter speeds let me explain that a box camera opened to its largest "stop," or lens opening, is comparable to approximately 1.11 on a folding cam- era and the shutter works at ap- proximately 1/25 of a second. If you are fortunate enough to own a camera with a fast lens and shut- ter, that is a different story. Sup- pose, for instance, that your camera has an 1.6.3 or 1.4.5 lens with shutter speeds up to 1/300 of a second. You are a fortunate person for you can get much closer to the scene of ac- tion. Open the diaphragm to its largest aperture, set your shutter speed at 1/100, 1/200 or 1/300, de- pending on the speed of the action and fire away. In school you study and experi- ment to gain knowledge of your sub- ject. The sante system applies to snapshooting. Study your camera and experiment and you will find it will pay you profitable dividends in interesting, story -telling pictures the scene of action you will get your that you will enjoy looking at for picture. At that distance, of course, years to c0n1e. your images will be small but an en- JOHN VAN GUILDER. met a French marshal who was mak- ing a short visit to England. The Frenchman promptly turned his back. The bystanders were beginning to remonstrate with the Duke for not reproving the affront. "Not at all,' was the reply. "I taught him that myself at Waterloo," Sometimes a ready reply has been the means of saving life. There is an instance of this in the court re- cords of Leinster from the middle of the nineteenth century. There had been a period of turbulence in West Meath. In one of these street fights that so commonly disturbd the pub- lic order, a man was killed by a blow on the head from a shillalah. In the trial that followed, it came out that the victim had what in medical parlance is known as a paper skull. When the accused was asked if he had anything to say before the sen- tence of death was passed, he arose and replied: "Yes, your honor, I should like to know what a man was doing with a head like that in West Meath.' The black cap was put away and the sentence commuted to im prisonment. Canada, the United Kingdom,. France, Germany and Austria are leading world importers of fruit. Canada does not require to import. apples, but the average annual im- ports of other fruits into Canada from 1928-32 included 74,000 tons of bananas; 73,000 tons of oranges; 20,- 000 0,.000 tons of dried grapes; 12,000 tons of lemons; 11,000 tons of grapes, and 8,000 tons of pears. READ THE ADVERTISEMENTS IN THE NEWS -RECORD —IT WILL PAY YOU— When you've just had word Ted has won that scholarship .. and you're pleased as punch , and so is his mother . . . Don't just take it out in smiling. Tell him he's a chip off the old block via Long Distance.) ® Night rates on "Anyone" '(station -to -station,) calls NOW BEGIN AT 7 P.M.