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The Wingham Advance Times, 1932-07-21, Page 6fi n THE WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIM, The "Wjn h tm Advance -Tunes Winglltalr , Ontario. Wellington Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Established t840 Risks taken on all class of insur- ance at reasonable rates. Head Office, Guelph, Ont. 0R1311TER COSENS, Agent, Wingham J. W. DODD iwo doors south of Field's Butcher shop. FIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT AND HEALTH INS'URANCEE AND REAL ESTATE P. 0. Box 366 Phone 46 GINGHAM, ONTARIO J. W. BUSHFIELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc, Money to Loan Office -Meyer Block, Wingham Successor to Dudley Holmes R. S. HETHERINGTON BARRISTER And SOLICITOR Office: Morton Block. Telephone 1W. J. H. CRAWFORD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. ` Successor to R. Vanstone ;,ingham ,- Ontario asaram$ .....e.,-. ._ DR. C. H. ROSS 'Irma,' DENTIST e" Office Over Isard's Store }L W. COLBORNE, M.D. Physician and Surgeon Iiiledical Representative D. S. C. R. Successor to Dr. W. R.' Hambly Phone 54 Wingham DR. ROET. C. REDMOND 31*.C.S. (ENG.) L.R.C.P. (Load.) PHU QIAN AND SURGEON DR. G. W. HOWSON DifiCt ovef john Cd;1br'aith's Store. F. A. PARKER 7 OSTEOPATH All Diseases Treated =flee adjoining residence next to 'dnglican Church on Centre Street Sundays by appointment. Osteopathy Electricity Phone 272. Hours, 9 a.m. to 8 natl. A. R. & F. E. DUVAL 'licensed Dnugiesc Practitioners Chiropractic and Electro Therapy. Graduates of Canadian Chiropractic College, Toronto, and National Col- lege, Chicago. Out of town and night calls res- ponded to. All business confidential. per.:.....,,., Phone 300. Licensed Drugless Practitioner CHIROPRACTIC - DRUGLESS THERAPY - RADIONIC EQUIPMENT Hours by Appointment. Phone 191. J. ALVIN FOX Wingham J. D. McE W EN LICENSED AUCTIONEER Phone 602r14. Sales of Farm Stock and Imple- mjents, Real Estate, etc., conducted with satisfaction and at moderate charges. THOMAS FELLS AUCTIONEER REAL ESTATE SOLD A thorough knowledge of Farm Stock Phone 231, Wingham RICHARD B. JACKSON AUCTIONEER Phone 613r6, Wroxeter, or address R. R. 1, Gorrie. Sales conducted any- where, and satisfaction guaranteed. DR. A. W. IRWIN DENTIST i-- X-RAY Office, McDonald Block, Wingham Ntillealksloadmonmeesateensomemonrantearothorommettatemsemr* A. J. WALKER PORNITURE AND 117NERAL SERVICE A. J : ii' AL1 ER Licensed Funeral (Director arid Embalmer. Office Phone 106. Res, Phone 224, Latest Limousine Funeral Coach. SYNOPSIS Johnny Breen, 16 years old, who had spent all of his life aboard a Hudson river tugboat plying near New York, is tossed into the river in a terrific collision which sinks the tug, crowns his mother and the man he called father, Ignorant, •unschool- ed ,and fear driven, he drags himself ashore, hides in the friendly dark- ness of a huge covered truck—only to be kicked out at dawn—and into the midst of a tough gang of river rat boys who beat and chase him. He escapes and, exhausted, tumbles into a basement doorway. Later, he hears the trap door slammed, a pad- lock snapped down—and he is trap- ped. Exhausted, be falls asleep. When he awakens it is day light and he looks about for a place to wash the river slime from face, hands and body. The running water attracts the attention of a Jewish family liv- ing in the rear of their second-hand clothing store. He is rescued—tak- en into the family—and there starts a new life on the Bowery in New York. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY "No Becka, it's too hot." FELIX RiESgNB PG she urged, again looking up into his face, still holding his arum, but re- fraining from closer contact. The boy walked straight ahead and fail- ed to answer. "You should get a dollar a day," Pecka continued, "and board too -he would have to give it -I will snake him," she said posit- ively, Late that afternoon the dollar in his pocket that had been given shim grudgingly, guiltily, by Channon Lipvitch, And this only after an ar- gument with Becka. "All right, don't give it him," she retorted to his repeated protest. "When he finds out—you look out. You ain't so smart," site warned. "John can sue you for daMages, for back wages, some day. Give hien something now—five dollars," Becka had argued. "No! No! Lipviteh knew the danger, also the expense. "You got to. You got to pay him something today." Becka was insis- tent, and, as John entered the Em- porium on his return from an errand a few doors away, Becka bent a parting glance of warning on her fa- ther, her eyes threatening exposure as she nodded meaningly at John. Lipvitch had had his hand in • his pocket. He fingered a coin, a half, "You're tired, That's what. You then in a prudent flood of generos- don't dast to go." ity he seized a silver dollar. "All right, come along," and John "Here, Chon," his throat was and Becka strolled casually from the husky. "Here, Chan, I god someding front stoop of the tenement as Becka by you." He spoke rapidly. "A dol - called, "So' long! We're going for a lar—you earned idt vages, Chon— walk," to Mrs. Lipvitch who sat on remember, vages," he repeated, hand - the basement steps with the twins ing the boy the large coin, thrusting and Mrs. Yartin, while Mr. Lipvitch it toward him impulsively, as if afraid argued with a customer within. John would not accept. "Ant re - An hrtsn later, in the dark of early member, Chon, I don'd charge you evening, the girl and boy, arra innodding, nodding a tall fer board. Forgiven—With the cool moist Iips of Becka pressing eagerly against his own. rm, strolled far from the crowds bout the Clothing Emporium. "Have you got any money?" Becka sked this frankly. "Lipvitch—your father," he cor- rected, "give me a dollar today." His hand gripped it in the bottom of the large trouser pocket, the one with- out the hole. He showed the bright silver coin to Becka. "Say—" Becka clasped his arm with an i4rnsinuating pressure, leaning toward and in front of John, as she Iooked up into his face, for he was a head taller than the girl, , "Say what?" he asked, shoving her back somewhat roughly in his em- barrassment. "You're green," she laughed ner- ously. "Say, you are green," she af- firmed, as if a great truth had just then been disclosed. "You don't (rave to work for nothing," she add- ed hastily. "Pa should pay you," You ged id all fer nodding." Then after an interval of pregnant silence, Becka having again linked John's arm through her own, doing so with a small laugh, they walked out on Broadway at a point where its wholesale commercial aspect stretches northward. To America, New York was Rome and still is; the feudal city of the Western World, taking tribute from the ends of the earth. Other cities may attempt to dispute this, but New York, true to its name, keeps rising new and fresh and more pow- erful from its own continuous disin- tegration, shafts of steel and bone springing up out of the dusty demol- ition constantly under way. The wrecks and mistakes of the past feed ambition, flaring to higher and diz- zier achievment, Never was the town so young and bright and hopeful as on the sum- mer night when John and Becka, far from their environment, walked un air, and literally rade on it, as they sped uptown on the West Side :L. The squat, green -bellied steam loco- motive puffed and wheezed, blowing its whistle as it approached the cur- ves, where Becka with an "Oh!" clung close to John; they sat in a cross seat by an open window. Descending at Fifty-ninth Street, Becka led him eastward to Columbus Circle. The tall shaft in the center, the different aspect of the people, the absence of push carts, and the dearth of children, puzzled John. Dodging the whirling steam of cy- clists, they entered the shaded walks of Central Park through a rustic ar- bor. The dusty white macadam drives were lively with: the prance of foam -flecked turnouts, and the clank and clink of fashionable harness trappings. And with, the black art of this night of swift unsual motion and of rare .sights, with Becka, soft and confiding, clinging closely on his arm, with the dread of Grogans for- gotten in the distant alleys of the slums, the boy expanded to an in- fluence beyond the measure of his understanding. He felt the secret- ive whispering of the dark. Far to the North, from the direc- tion of the Mall, band music filtered through the leaves, for the air was still, and presently captured moon- light, prisoned in a lake, was discov- ered. through a parting of the trees. John and Becka turned toward this, to the lower walks, the perfect ones planned long ago by a master gard- ener. Finding a secluded spot they sat down, the still surface of the re- flecting pond almost at their feet. They were close together, a lilac bush screened them from the walk; they talked idly. Suddenly the light of the lake went out as a clouts drift- ed across the moon. "You do, John, I know you do. Lilly Firkin saw you." Becka, in tones of pouting banter, was accus- ing John. Suddenly he found him- self forgiven, forgiven for things he had never done, for lapses he had not committed, for things he had never even thought about, forgiven with the cool moist lips of Becka pressing eagerly against his own, stilling all protest of innocence, or of revolt. His voice rasped. He choked and struggled, vibrant with the contact, holding Becka with convulsive strength. The first drops of rain found them oblivious to the coming storm. The boy, ill clad, hard in body, with few ideas but those of strife, released the girl; her sudden "Ohl" corning with the return of breath almost crushed out of her. John jumped up, picked up her straw hat, and pulling her by the arm led her to the bole of a huge sycamore whose broad leaves promised some shelter from the rain. Quick flashes of lightning, followed by harsh, rumbling peals of thunder, were punctuated by the puny cries and screams of women running from the park as sudden swirls of cool air and rain whipped about the trees. Then John and Becka, like Paul and Vir- ginia of the story, naked, not of body but of mind, raced beneath the trees and the lashing of the storm. for the park gate at Fifth Avenue and Fifty- ninth' Street. They took the east Side L., down again into the famil- iar closeness of the shams. The end of September, in the city of perpetual change, brings with it the first refreshing whisper of cool- er airs; a new vitality springs to life among the heat -weary dwellers in the city. Sol 13ernfield had. 'come back from the road afterquestion- able success in providing crayon en- largements of family album portraits with the Paris Spicy :Package as a side line. The spicy package being a bulky .surreptitous envelope, sold sealed 'Against the law, you (crow, to show it,' 'to be opened by the purchaser 'Strictly in. private." 11 was a suggestive package, retailing at twenty-five cents, ur two bits, and sold wholesale to candy choppers, on trains at seven, flat, a gross. Sul sold few of the crayon enlargements but clid -let rid of his entire stock of spicy packages to the farmers and their hands, even disposing of them to women by the simple process of refusing to tell them what he was selling'. On his return to the city, Sol found (seeks in a receptive frame of mind. and: John Breen pursuing his way in dogged silence. f;ecka's ef- forts, balked by his awkward inex- perience, had at least served to put him on a meager wage, in the size of which she evinced small interest, She soon walked out with Sol, then earning, as she boastfully confided to John, the princely salary of twenty- five dollars a week as runner for a Bowery burlesque show. And, fur- thermore, she was to appear in the chorus, of a leg show, "in tights("— a secret carefully kept from Channon Lipvitch, but whispered slyly to John.. And to prove it Becka show- ed John a' photograph that brought a hot flush to his face. "Silly," she cried, "I'm an actress, you know." But for all that a coolness sprang up between them, and John refused tic- kets to the show. And, as another side line, Sol Bernfeld began to match John against likely boys in clandestine boxing bouts of the lower city, tak- ing him from hall to hall on Satur- day nights, acting as his manager. These adventures were a relief to the ,growing dislike he felt for the Clo- thing Emporium , and its cloying sameness. Fighting had become se- cond nature to him. He liked the heat of 'combat and his craving for the excitement of the fight grew with his success. It was late in November when Sol Bernfeld matched John against "Ras - per" Jorgan, known to the Green - point section as the "Polack Wond- er." The boys were to weigh in at one hundred and thirty-three, ring, side, and go ten rounds in one of the preliminary bouts before the famous Samson Sporting Club. It was the most ambitious bout yet se- cured by Manager Bernfeld, and the purse, so Sol stated, was to be twenty-five dollars, to the winner. If John won he would split with John, taking ten dollars for his share, and John Breen, glancing curiously at the typewritten letter from the train- er of the Samson Sporting Club, wondered at the queer kind of print- ing, for he had never seen a type- written letter before and he was ashamed to admit that he could not read a word, a deficiency Manager Sol Bernfeld was thoroughly aware of. FIFTH AVENUE Let us go back, in an orderly way, and sketch the story of the , Van Horns as generally understood; the myths of the new city are its "old families," running back two ox three or even four generations. Guysbert Van Horn, great-grand- father of Gilbert, was a man of hard common sense and the son of no less a man than Peter Van Horn, who came over from Holland as a young man, preferring an English colony, with Dutch traditions, to life at home. Guysbert was a man of frugal hab- its, and of strong religious convic- tions, when drunk or sober, in fact a man well calculated to prosper in the new New York. His son, Van Winckle Van Horn, proved a true son of New York. Born in 1800, he married a Lambert and determined to found the Van Horn fortuneon the future of the city. He believed New York would eventually grow northward, in spite of its width from river to river. In the face of much 13 Thursday, July 21st, 1932: calth Service OF THE (6anabi :?' r*l , , oxrriau tri TVito't•br GgAPl1 rLEMIWG, m.o. .- ASSOCIATEs ;Crisry°Any paredin accordance with the in- .structionsof the doctor. Cow's mills is the basis for most infant feedings. The milli should be pasteurized or boiled. Whatever is added to the milk, whether it be wa- tar or other ingredients, should be in the axact amounts prescribed by the doctor. The formula for feed- ings must be altered from time to time. As the baby grows he requir- es increasing amounts and varieties of food. No food is good food for the baby unless it is clean to begin with. It mustbe prepared in the most clean- ly way, and kept in clean contain- ers. Unless such care is taken con- taminations is apt to occur which is likely to lead to illness. Feeding the baby properly is but part of the protection he needs 'dur- ing the hot weather. Frequent baths,. few clothes and protection against the full strength of the sun's rays, are important. Health does not de- pend upon any one thing, but there - is no doubt that much of the illness• and many of the deaths of babies summer are the result of improper feeding. Questions concerning Health, ad- dressed to the Canadian Medical As- sociation, 184 College St., Toronto,. will be answered personally by let- ter. FEEDING THE BABY IN SUMMER The proper feeding of her baby is a problem fur every mother at all seasons of the year, In the summer time it is a more difficult problem than during other seasons because of the effects of hot weather upon her child and puon perishable foods. The baby who is naturally fed is fortunate, There is nothing just as good as breast .musk for the baby, It is pure and. it does not spoil, It is the natural food which the child is best able to digest. The baby fed at the breast is protected against ill- ness in a better way than by any other method of feeding. Such being 'the case it is obvious that every mother should nurse her baby. The baby :should not be wean- ed, unless the mother has been ad- vised by her doctor to do so. No mother should assume the responsi- bility of depriving her child of its natural food for little or no reason. To do so meads to needlessly expose her baby to danger, When the time comes for the child to be fed with artificial foods the mother has a more difficult and time-consuming task than when she was nursing the baby. There is only one safe way to feed the child arti- ficially and that is to use foods pre - contrary advice he bought cheap land far to the north in the tract of Greenwich Village, and he held on. The only son of Van Winckle—the Van Horns ran to only sons — was Brevoort Van Horn, father of Gil- bert. So this family tree had its simple roots back in the rocky soil of Manhattan. So at the time we make the ac- quaintance of the last of the Van. Horns, as he was generally called, Gilbert Van Horn was forty years of age; his hair was iron gray and he might eas'4ly have passed for a well- preserved man of fifty. (Continued Next Week.) SLAT'S DIARY By Ross Farquhar Friday—Ant Emmy was a feeding about sum Heathen countrys wear they dround the Little girl baby and she art pa why do they do suchy thing as to dround the little Girl baby and pa replyed and sed he dident Xackly no but at enny rate it wood be 1 way to put a stop to this infernal petting enny way. Saterady —Geo. Grate is very very lucky. The Dr. sed he had to be oparated on for a pendisitis and then after they had oparated on him for a pendisitis why they found out the hole trubble was caused by a bad Tooth so now all he has to do is go have a tooth pulled. mebb a cupple of teeth. Sunday .Ant Einmy is very en- quisitive, she was wandering this morning who this fellow Gusto is that so menny people eats with. she says he must be a offly hevy eater. Munday—I ges pa has got hisself in bad with the 'chief of Palice on acct. of he put in the noose paper a hed line about' Mr. Riley makes a Xcellent chief of the Farce, 1 of these days pa is going to lose his Teusday—& then pa made a nuth- er mistake when he rote up a add fer the paper. he sed House for Rent fine attick with room for several drunks. Wensday—Mr. Gillem says he hat- es to eat in resterants but he alli ways eats in reserants in the erhy slimmer intiIl he gets his new straw hat and in the fall intill he gets his - Fall hat & once an a wile a over coat mebby. Thirsday—Ma was tawking about a yung cupple witch got marryed to each another last month and was a getting a divorce this month and she sed a yung man shud think Twice- before wicebefore he even asts a girl to Marry him, and pa sed. Yes or even once. & then all you cud hear was the Sweeper in are house. SPEEDERS CAUSED 881 CAR ACCIDENTS LAST YEAR In Ontario, alone, last year, there were more than two motor vehicle accidents per day for every day in the year because men and women drove too fast for traffic or road conditions. There is no guess work about this figure. It is quoted from official records. Mr. J. P. Bickell,. Registrar of Motor Vehicles, Ontar- io Department of Highways, speak- ing about speed on the streets and highways says: "It is most difficult to say what a safe speed is. The law restricts. speed on the highways to 35 miles per hour. Too many motorists ac- cept this limit as being permissible under all conditions. Every thought- ful and observing person knows that there are times when even five or ten miles an hour is dangerous. Safety onthe highways is a matter of sane driving judgment and con- stant viligance." Brown (dolefully): "Yes, I had a balance in the bank a little while ago, but since I have been engaged it has all gone," Friend: "Expensive business, eh? Never mind, love makes the world go round, you know?" Brown: "Perhaps, but I never thought- it would go fast enough to, Job or mebby go to the Wirk house. snake me lose my balance" TI -IE FAMILY NEXT DOOR Sometimes. There's a Muzzle, Too, NO SIR! `(OURE :I OT GOING OUTTO-NW HAVE IIOTHINCx 10 00 ANS) 'OtS E GOING, NO SWAY BERE AND EN`C'E.RZAI'N ME 9.y--� al O�° o 1 AEVER. %A TO GET mpachEQ FiO N PEOPLE GET MA IEO , UNCLE AE1L, FER© T1 -IE FiRST T1 -IE" ' "1"i -1E`' DQ > 1S GES 1;ICMISE 00 ''OU GET COLLAR \MTh tZ ►-1KE WNS'N tri kAC ,NSO ASOOT WHAT Vt AMOUNTS `Tb! rjfr yc roll 13, 4