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The Huron Expositor, 1946-11-01, Page 7 (2)r-; 1!, • (ceratinned, facant Ina' Week) Salurrietlet'a•Wart "a:" assittatt around , the corner frim The Exprees. office. Here the mem, working On .the Morn. lite Papeert %Mind an .ertgeolallY ere. pareitlinueb. for them at midnight., and would- spend an houreating aril chat- ting before going :henna ' Witte ordered a beer. "Take a regular drink," Riley said encouragingly. "Yoiseare a full -fledge ed reporter now., That sten* of yours goes on the first page in the morning. Rand 'vas tickled With it." FroMelhat eight on the subject of driuk became?, the nightmare of Witte's tirlatence in N WhiskY „revolted hilly phYtricaily. Th ie abhor- rence of it made him laughable in the eyesof the widening 'allele of re- portera. he cathe to. know. „ One night as he passed up the bot- tle and told the waiter to give him a beer one jovial member of the com- : pany hailed hine aft aadisciple of Care lie Nation. On• another recession, las- repugnance to whisky, • was .suddenly made 'a race issue. One of the 'reporters had read that the Jews as a race were temperate to a Ida degree. He recounted this ,to the eempany, and each began asking Witte- whether the. Jews Were averse to drink on religious. grounds. These questions, made him uneem- fortable. It annoyed him, to have his race and religion, and the thousands of years of history • back of them, dragged into a matter of his tam per- sonal distaste:- Why charge up a .. trilling Peculiarity of his to the fact that he was a Jew? Why raise the tnteretion of race and on that ground single him out as "different"? He resolved to end these annoyanc- es: He would take a drink of whisky now and then, or at least he would • try to have the appearance of drink - LEGAL McCONNELL & RAYS Barristers; Solicitors, ate. Patxtek D. McConnell - H. Glenn Bays • SEAFOBTH, ONT. Telephone 174 A. W. SILLERr • Barrister., Solicitor, Etc. SEAFORTH , ONTARIO Phone 173, Seaforth MEDICAL SEAFORTH CLINIC DR. E. A. McMASTER, M.B. Physician DR. P. L BRADY, M.D. Surgeon Office hours daily, except Wednes- day: 1.30-5 p.m., .7 - 9 p.m. - Appointments for consultation may be Made in advance. JOHN A. GORWILL, B.A., M.D. Physician and Surgeen IN DR. H. H. ROSS' OFFICE Phones: Office 5-Va; Res. '5-1 Seaforth MARTI4W. STAPLETON, B.A., M.D. • Physician and Surgeon Successor to Dr. W. 0. Sproat Phone 90-W Seaforth DR. F. J. R. FORSTER . • Eyee Ear, Nose and Throat ` Graduate in Medicine, University of Toronto. Late. assistant New York Opthal- mei and Aural Iristitute, Moorefield's Eye and Golden:qUare Throat Ros- ana', Londoe, Eng. At COMMERCIAL HOTEL, SEAFORTH, THIRD WED- NESDAY In each month, from 2 p.m. to 4.30 P.m. 53 Waterloo Street South, Stratford; JOHN C. GODDARD, WO; Physician :and Surgeon • Phone 110 -, .1 Hensall .4058ase DR. F. H. SCHERK • Physician and Surgeon Phone 56 HensalL. AUCTIONEERS. • HAROLD JACKSON Specialist in Farm and Household Sales. ••Licensed in Huron and Perth Coun- • ties. Prices reasonable; satisfaetion guaranteed. --or Information, etce write or phone HAROLD JACKSON, 14 On. 661, Sea- • forth; n.n. 4, Seaforth. PERCY C. WRIGHT, Licensed Auctioneer lioneehold, farm •stock, implements and pure bred sales. Special 'training •and experience enables nie to offer yon sales serelee that is Mast effici- ent and. satisfactory PHONE 90 r W., S. O'NEIL, DENPIELD, ONT. Liceneed Auctioneer Pure bred siibia, Ab Slam stock and Implemelittt' Ver Mint gbarge. eittletaetion giaranteed. For Ar40,00, 4 • ELIAS- ig.Retellie "0Paertarettee" Was attO detected, Riley on bele up 'Witte! Mao" with` a thimbleful of waiska it for the inspection, of the ereMPanY and they hed a hearty laugh at hi expense. Z Porters ore The ExPreat, evoirecli' S smile. -* it "It was not tbe, Oinks," Lindley, , the city tall Men,- benteredtae young O aeporter, "it was the Made that did You. UP. . I always- disfike, the music at Righeimer'a neaself." Emil felt entetted. What a mieer- able game it was, this trying to stand in with the fellows by drinking at the expense of his self-respect, let alone haslal ealth. What disgusting busi- ness Riley „was right. It was the fault of ST--. It was no •place -to be. in. • There .was ao atmosphere there. Ile Mustego-to-aecityawhere-there-were. literary people—where there was a field. He would leave The Express at the end of the Week. When Witte, the followbag after- noon, upon fin -ding afaverable mom- ent walked over to Rand and told him that -he would leave the Exprese at the close of the. week, the city editor lifted lus eyes slowly, and swinging back iu, his chair"; merely •!Said: "AW right." Before going out to dinner, howev- er, Rand walked over 4o Witte's desk. He was pressed for men, -he said. The Express .had for some time been run- ning with a shorter etaff than usual. If• Witte stayed. he wouldraise his wages, to fifteen dollarsa week—he was getting twelve. : The Express was payieg the high- est salaries in town. The Dispatch would not pay , him more, the city editor added. -Witte allayed Randfs suspicions on that adore. He was not going over to the Dispatch, he sad, but was leav- ing town. He was- going to Chicago. "Got a job there?" Rand asked. "Friends in the newspaper- • Witte admitted • that he had no friends in Chicago -and not the slight- est outlook for a position, but that he wanted to be in a big city; was de- termined to be there. "You'd, better wait until you have More experience," Rand counseled. "Chicago is hardly a -place for -a be- ginner like yourself." • Witte made no answer to this, and Rand walked out. At midnight Saturday, as Witte was butting` the clippings of some of hie stories in an envelope, Rand .walked over to the reporter. "When are you leaving?" he ,asked. "In the morning."' "You are not wasting any tithe," Rand said, a thin note of sarcasm in his voice. The next instant his voice was serious again. "Stick to that freak stuff, to feature writing," the city editor cast a final, friendly warning. "You are good at it. It will be this that will make you .a -provided, of course, you hit it right." Witte thanked him for this kindly ad -vice. When; the reporter .had left the of- fice, Rand, walking from a momentary revery, rem,arked to the •political edi- tor: ,. "The boy will go ,far, he has charaetera "Yes," Francis replied, "it is just like those quiet foreigners—" a • . And here is the bathroom. Everything is nice and clean -and I don't allow any rough people here. This is not like them other places down the street that takes in- any one who comes along. . . , I am particu- lar—and I don't allow any can rush- ing. It is a Mie &opt for the money, You won't get anything better for t dollars a week in the whole city . Witte had never been to Chicago cept-for passing -through it on his wt from tile old world to Spring Watr, thirteen years, back. He bad plann d to stop at a hotel, for a few days unt 1 he had acqainted himself with th • town, But there were nearly .thre' columns of advertisements -of roo II to rent on Van Buren Street in Chicago Sunday Star which he bo t on the train. One never courr /tell hove long one might have to w for a job—he batt better be sari with his money.' He Would dispene with hotels and take a room at once. He checked his suitcase in 'the station. The first policeman he met •direCted him to a Van Buren street car. • The landlady, a rotund, middle-aged Irish- matron with a skin as fair as that of a young girl, was still speak:: Embittered; Emil Witte now begun taking at .aritiest one "good" drink an evening, • although be felt sick for hour§ afterward. One night as he watched ,Rileet. empty his third glass of Whishir, a • question slipped Witte's tongue. "Why do you fellow's drink so much?" he asked. ' 'Well, what would. you have us.,da?" the hotel- •reporter laughed_ hoarsely. • . . Tho thoughtful Manner.. in which Witte gazed into space finally :com- municated itself to Riley. "You might as well ask, why we stay in the newspaper business" -the botelareporter , said, "There Is just ,aa much _legit te_it,,as there is to drinking. What other fun can one have at this hour of the night? "I have sometinaes, wenclered," Riley continued, growing morose, "where this is going to bead to. II:mire been a pewspaper mai for five years now. If I were a lawyer, -a, physician, a business man,., I should be settled by this time. in this business" 'nothing is settled beyond the fact that I Will be here again tomorrow ideit- and will be taking the same number of drinks, I had *ambitions to weiteonce, but they -petered Out: They peter out with most newspaper men. the desire to drink is the only permanent thing about ' the busineas. Nothing else is stable in fl. . . . Perhaps in a- big city, in Chicago or New York, it might he different." • Witte asked about Chicago:- Had Riley ever been there? Riley had never worked in Chicago. But every, so often a man would leave N to go to Chicago. In the ma- jority of cases the fellows came back and 'were glad to get their old jobs again. In fact men frone'Chicago were often glad to slip into a good job in a,. smaller city, in N for in- stance. Rand was an example. In Chicago he probably Would have re- mained a copy reader all his life. Here he was city editor; some day he might become ,mareaging editor. • Emil Witte and Riley were stand- ing at the "bar in Schroeder's, when two reporters of the Dispatch came in. One ef them ordered drinks for the crowd, „Witte had had one whisky but having determined. not to make himself conspicuous,- he poured out another. When the bartender put the bottle befdrehim for tiie third time, Witte filled his glass. without further hesitancy. It. seemed to him that be w'aa .filling the glass not for himself but for somebody -else. . . . That somebody else lifted the glass and drank to his, Witte' -s health. . . . Witte experienced a peculiar sensa- tion -in the front part of his head. His eyelids felt painfully heavy and Sore. One of the reporters began upbraid- ing Schroeder for the•goulash and trot roast which he fed them on night af- ter night. He suggested that they go to a chop suer place and have "a regular feed." The rest agreed. Emil heard what they were saying as if in a dream. Riley saw to it that Emil ate his chop suey. Several times when band rested on the table feeling too heavy to hold the fork, Riley urged him on. Indistinctly Witte heard his name hurled- back and forth in the convereation. They, were laughing, too, but it waftnot at him they were laughing, but, at somebody else, who had been drinkbag whisky. Witte leered at that somebody. He was .go- ing to banter hina, too, but -his tongue -refused to move. It telt as it .it were ghied "to the back of his throat. ' - The company moved and Witte mov- ed along with them. Now- he realiz- ed what an incumbrance that some- body else, who had been drinking whisky, was, upon him. . . He was constantly stepping upon one or the other of his feet." He was in, his way at every step. A. piano was banging, and men and women were talking loudly, 'and .- A man ina white coat and white apron was busying himself about Witte's table, and in a few min- utes there appeared a bottle on it and glasses. iLey saw him vaguely Etat- leg about, talking to some people, men, women. . .. A girl at the neigh- boring table was smiling. . . She was motioning with her head la his direction. She was. calling him „to come over, to sit near her: He recognized her. . It was Lena Rosen. . . . Yes, Lena was sitting there at the table. Strange he had not recognized her at once.. . . 1Ie trust go up and talk to ber . . . yes, , ask , about home. , that's ft, about home. He tried to lift himself from hi3 chair, but something in his throat was hOlding him back, . , • He must Cry out, he must call forhelp—it was choking him. He took hold of k near -by chair, st�od up and' tried, to clear his- throat. There was a shriek from several women and a scampering, in all direc- tions. Two men in white coats _and White' aprons- took •him' 'under each arm and led -him aWay.... Riley and another reporter began busying them- selves about him, wiping his cloths. 'Take him outside, fresh air will de him good," some one suggested, Witte was led Outside. The„air clear- ed his head... ... He realized what had taken place. But he was too sick to think. "You had better come with me to ray' room," said Riley, "My landlady is wit's. he Will fix up Your elotheif in the morning so they won't ehoW a trace , . . Such things :happen once in 'a wiule. . . gnat's that atop suey disagreed, With you, It clinaltoo /Met aftte.thedritilc.° Withal; dieconifittire of the night be. rote, Nolpb,.1,7,4f,pt,pcpro,40.0.14.-ele. .4Eititti` *Rey fiiltir re. Pk0 ° :440:•-1Y.94 ..4#10,tAX.C.4 k0.ifeY.....thajna WW0:40001-Ole Only '•ellair ..-4.4.1*..*WOW and 4raliYing. 14Rie.,40.0naf ,411•0•-•-$4100t the, TOW of November, hi.4 ...,tka 40- Wrte hatO W#I0, 41./4Ont mot eaten aaathIng',Olana 41'04440 A! Was nearly . eve "daorafrom -tae roome rea4Y4AA4 w4igh, waaltept 'biir au Italian. A aClita4' ,,.., • „„,, waiter was 490W, at a table. Ti 480.113111B,d, apnearanee of the place get- zand434 J1IiSPrelWY that it was Su; day, A that. every -one was at home— with friends, He' thought of hip par, (luta, -of $13408 Water. . While he •was stoning .1;4 *fee he wrote a feiv lines on a- postSittd to- his, father. Evening found im exhausted and- gloomy- On ;lie -mantelpiece in his room lay several old m.agazines. Ile picked one aP and began to turd the pages. There Was,. wilttieg in several ,places in a fem.-In:Me bend. The rORIA must have been -occupied- last by a girl. Where was the girl now? ,Did she gb somewhere else to room? Or hed-eomanee- setaher free from the - Lan bedroom existence? He thought -of Lena. Ile owed; her a letter. But he would not write until he get a job. He: ivondered what she would think of the step he had taken, of his gang to Chicago. Of course she would know that -he had left N She would learn it froni his mother. She was coming -to their house often of late, his father had written. He closed his eyes and the room seemed suddenly to fill with Lent's PreSenee, . . He .breathed the per- fume of her hair. She was coming nearer—bending over him. He was asleep.He was up at seven and by noon it seemed to him that he had pa.ssee a long day. In spite of his, decision not to look fora job until.he had ac- quainted himself with the city, he sought out the newspaper' offices the very first thing and noted carefully the appearance of each building and the streets that led to it. ; There was .a dryness in his throat, His chest pained hiss from the smoke he had swallowed. There was an in- eessa.nt ringing in his ears. It seemed to him that he would never get used to the noise and clatter of the city, that he Would never find himself in this maze of elevated trains and street cars that were chasing each other in endless streams. The third morning there was a let- ter from his- father. In contrast to his own few lines, his father wrote at length. It,was a cheerful, encouraging letter. Aaron Witte approved his son's course in -leaving N—. He felt confident in his son's ability 'to make good itt the big city. It may be difficult at first," he wrote, "but ,then things worth while 'never Come easy -L." In spite, of the cheerful tone of the letter Emil saw between the lines that it was written with an aching heart. His father and mother were uneasy about his fortunes in the . far-off, strange city. His •departure for Chi- cago had made the distance between .hiniself 'and his parents greater: At the close of the letter his 'father se him the address of a relatives, a cou- sin of Aaron's, a Mrs. Bloch, who liv- ed in Chicago,. He urged Emil to go up and see her. Aaron and Rebecca, that was Mrs. Bloch's first name, had been almost like sister and brother in their younger days. In the afternoqn - of -the •same day the weather turned colder. Emil walk- ed into the reading -room of the public library and ound every seat taken by jobless, ngry men. Some read, oth- ers m e a pretense of reading, and ality sought to snatch a few min - s sleep without being caught at it y the attendant who was on the alert to weed -out all who were not bona fide reaers. Emil consulted his map of Chicago and -took a car to the neighborhood where his father's cousin lived: The conductor let Jilin off at Morgan treet. He found himself in. the heart Chicago's ghetto. On every side ere people of his race,..talking the guage in which his mother croon - him to sleep in his chilhood, not In:lily and in hushed voider as they e Yiddish in •Spring Water, but la ed ste spo with perfect -indifference, not feeling that they were Making themselves conspicuons. They were at home in the Chicago ghetto almost as much as they 'had been in the Russian Pale. Absorption in 'the sights about"him delayed, Ebail's search for Mrs. Bloch. He finally hunted up the house. It Was a three-storey building. A wo- man who emerged from the dark hall, es, 1444V-Ireall, ..1Ps5$'0Mt, The bottle shortage Is.actite-. *Meese return empty beer bottles to your nearest brewere Retell Sire or phone fer eickem iirreiera PUBLIC INTeRS ST r Y !Oh T I 1 fr D • .....T?r• . Is Free Democracy Worthwhile"' - This searching question is posed by the addrerre made in Ottawa -last week by Percy Philip—neNts repOrter "ef great ability and culture wheeCovered the peace coefarence after two 'wars. Speaking on the subject, "In Search of Peace,” Mr. Philip was certain that the recent peace conference was much niore discouraging than that of 1919. The first eonference was set in an at- mosphere .of hope- and confidence and the belier thaf-free denaterecy evOtild beer:pine the way Of the world. ' The recent conference was a dog: fight _from the beginning between dif- ferent "systems" of government. Ffee democracy is maintained in only a few countries of the world and many coun- tries with iarge population- maintain -1 that their authoritarian system, with only one political party allowed and where oppoeition to the 'is considered treason, mases of people better. It is true that free`democracy,prov- ed to be the better way 'in war time— proved by •the valeur of our sons in battle and the persistence, industry and co-operation of our people at home. Free democracy not only play- ed aelarge part in the defeat of aa authoritarian state but supplied an government serves the informed him that the Blochs lived on the third floor, in front. He went up and rapped at the door. • It was opened by a woman of fifty who had been busying herself in the kitchen. ' "Are you .Mrs. Bloch—Rebecca'?" Witte asked emphasizing the first, name last. " "Yes,' the woman answered, back- ing. her way into the parlor so as to be able to discern the visitor's face better. "1 am Aaron's son—Emile," he in- troduced himsel. He held out his hand.' But the woman did not take it: She gazed at his face and seemed unable to find ,words, • She finally .managed to .speak: "You are—Emil, the. Wale Emil— Aaron's and Masha's son?" Witte nodded stupidly. He was moved :by the peculiar . twitching of the muscles in the woman's face. She took his hand and palled him over to herself aa if he were a small boy, and kissed his cheeks. "Why, child," she gasped as her eyes filled with a haze. "I raised you. I carried you in my arms as an infant, But .you don't remember. me. I left for America when you were only two years old." , She began to ply him with questions about- his parents, tender, inmost questions. Emil felt ashamed for hav- ing prized his relationship to this wo- man so little but an hour before. Mr. Bloch appeared to be of the same -age as Emil's father- and had known Aaron Witte since boyhood. He "knew" Emil in an instant. - "1 could,recognize hink among -thou- sands," he said, not. without pride in his own.. keennese. "yap; he Is the picture af Aaron." . The Blochs had two married chil- dren: The other's, a boy of Emil's age and a girl- of seventeen, were still livin& with them. The boy, Sam, took an immediate liking to his second. cousin. After the evening meal the Bloclaa insisted that Witte go at once with Sam and move his things. They could not permit Emil to stay with strang- ers. On the way to the Van Buren street rooming -house Sam confided- to Emil his ambitions. He was .a cutter in a' cloak shop. This was not a bad trade in itself, better than his father's who was a presser in a sweatshop, But he was ambitious. He was taking up a night course and would seen be 'a de- signer. • . Mrs. Bloch and her husband- mean- time were discussing 'Witte's occupa- tion. The husband spoke of it with 'high respect. His only regret was that Aaron's boy, as he referred -to Emil, did not write in-Viddish so that he could read ll a articles. Tq have a writer in the family was no sawn honor., • "And is the boy very learned?" Re- becca asked. "Learned?" Mr. Bloch exclaimed. "Why the boy is what might be com- pared to a great rabbi—been through a university! Only his learning, you understand, is different from that of a rabbi:" It concerns itself with other matters, worldly learning." Mrs. Bloch listened to her husband and her heart melted, "What is there to.marvel at?" Boch said. "You know what a' head Aaron had on him. If it had not been for his great love. for Masha he would have been a 'rabbi, one of the pillars of Israel now." And 'then they talked of things more than a generation old, until Witte, accompanied by Sam, who was carrying his suitcase, came back. Rebecca kept plying Emil . with queStians. She even asked, him to re- count his ocean voyage. "Foolish woman," her husband chid- ed her good naturedly "He did not come from the old world yesterday. He bas leen here thirteen yeara., He must have long forgotten his ocean voyage. But Mil, remembered, his ocean i01 - age and described it Minutely to Re - He recalled a thousand things Whit& lie had- nev'er thought of in all ttie •years he had been itt the new world. . . He took delight in re,• Asembering these things,...; iConiinued Nikt *eels): . . ---• 0-.044**Ii0;.‘"*.4100re4n• 44a wpm *40to-040,...0#041i:.'''"' Byt4b.;:ct,10/,, .10,004 ,: • Pucv§410414 !ONO,. OilliziC,4...CirP.43,S.ifbet14:410,;,*, ORS*: phe ,10-4410,400. inPrkdaIe.„ Antal* 4i114.V*911040 PrAirlenil401, 'toba, are interesting and hit 00 ;404; 4ecialye. Tho 046 -Oft, stituenCy: receives a great deal teution„ in relation to the itetaiis of the vote for ;the :three -principal par, ties. 00133.thelitS Vrom Party 'leaders are considered, as statements of couragement to -party "workers rather than serioue oPielone. of the came of -the vote. The questions Of interest in Park - 'dale were: Weisa a sinalleraote when• ,: all parties were better organized than in the general election? To What ex- tent did the striking workers oam- paignlng for the p.e.r. -E;aity help' to increase that party's vote? In Pert - age the former home of Hon. Arthur Meighen, where dap the SoCial Credit vote of 857 in 1945 go, and to what extent did Labour Progressive support help the C.C.F. Party? -- In view of the close vote between the three major parties there is a strong opinion that Ow' use of the transferable ballot would have elected both governntent Candidates but this view is by no mesas unanimous. 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