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The Huron Expositor, 1950-01-06, Page 71i ER DIV CHAPTER 1 The soft -toned c'hin;(es sounded again, and Ann. said Under •her breath, "Darn!" She cau'gbt up her bag and gloves; and raced doyen the stairs, slowing to a Walk as she entered the big, dim, 014 Ohl - big -room. • • .. Sarah, straight as an arrow, the tbhick'drown of I}er snowy hair smartly cut and waved, looked up, tat Aer with displeasure in her dark eyes and her still soft, still pretty mouth a little thin. • Sarah, at sev- -enty, was still very .much a 'power to be reckoned with; •and,,Ann'S heart sank a little a5 she saw ,the (signs -of battle in the piercing dark eyes. "Good morning, Sarah," she greeted: her grandmother cheerily and dropped into her place at the table. "Sorry- I was late." • • Sarah,- pouring a golden brown stream, of coffee ,from. the, beautiful old Georgian silver pot; sa-d'curt ty, "From the -way you are dressed, I should judge you are going in to town his morning. Shopping, I " suppose? "You dont suppose anything of the kind, darling," Ann contradiet- ad hes grandmother cheerfully, dig- ging her spoon carelessly into her grapefruit,. which protnptly retali- ated by spurting a stream of -juice into her eye.' "This is my first-day as a working girl and -I can't afford to be late." Sarah made 'a little' sound that in one less distinguished, less well bred,. might have been called a snort. • "A. working girl!, I've never head .of such arrant nonsense," said Sarah sharply. "If • you had the sense the good Lord gave geese--" "I know, angel -pet, if I had the sense of an oyster, I Would marry Lyn Frazier, and live the life of Riley on his inherited estate," Ann interrupted her, and- now there was less cheerfulness arid more of a done .that sounded like her grand snd£her. "But I haven't -any sense, as you have pointed out to me ever wince I insisted on having a jab on -the Courier! I'm not going to mar- ry anybody unless" I'm in love with fir" "You sound like your mother," said Sarah, her 'mouth thinning a little, for Sarah had net liked Jane Clayton. "But' you're all Clayton," she purred ,gently. ' Ann nodded. "And .knowing that, you'd Still, try to prevent my work- ing. on -the Courier?" she asked quietly. "When your grandfather started•'the paper, and it's been owned by Claytons ever since -- until a syndicate's bought it? Yon,- above evsryorie eis.e, Sarah, sliould understand why I insisted on that elause -in the sale contract- that -gives nie a job as reporter—" - "At twenty dollars a week!" Sar- ah cut in. • "Until I've proved I'm worth, More," Ann- retorted. " . They-i3tudjed, �.ach„,other for a Hong moment. You might have thought that they were. enemies, but you -would have been wrong, for they were very fond of each other, these last two Claytons. "You'll- do," said .Sarah after a moment, and sighed and her voice warmed.. "I know, darling, why you are so, determined to work—" "Because I've got newspaper' ink in my blood—" ' "Because. we are ' desperately hard up, and my small annuity "So you're Ann'Clayton! • Is that Info is barely 'enough to keep us .going!" Sarah finished, as though Ann had not spoken. "But we could let the servants go and sell this place." They were quiet for awhile, these two, thinking private thoughts about loyalty and old family hous- es. A clock ticked steadily on somewhere in the dim background. That -reminded Ann. . She sprang to her feet; swooped up her 'purse and - gloves from a chair, and marched -over to Sarah. "Look, old dear," she said softly, "please wish me luck. I feel as if I never needed anything so much in my life!" Sarah sat looking at her grand- daughter, Ann, ,quietly for' a mo- ment.. "So you want me -to wish you luck, eh, child? Well, I guess I can do that .much. Wishing for luck is about the closets we Clay - tons 'have .Come to it. tor quite a while." Ann swooped and kissed Sarah's e shininghead.Then sh white, e rac- ed for the hall, calling back gome cheerful nonsense over her shoul- der as she went. "Take pay car, Ann," shouted Sarah, "I shan't be .needing it this morxYing." Ann visualized•, the ancient elec- tric that had been furbished up and which Sarah drove with such .dig- nity and aplomb, barely concealed a giggle. "Thanks, darling, but I think it would look better for a working girl to use a more .ordin- ary mode of transportation, don't you?" The Courier was the eity's only morning newspaper, It 'was a city of well over a hundred thousand, Lt i4 ambitions towards becoming the most outstanding city in the South Sarah's grandfather had started the paper as a weekly and it had gained some prominence:_ In the war between the. states the paper•• had been destroyed,' along with its plants, but almost .before the ashes had •cooled, Sarah's young husband, who had left a leg at ,Bull Run, had started it again. As•Ann had said, the Claytons and the Courier were one, and it had all. but •broken Ann's heart when the paper hada to be sold six mbnths earlier to a Northern syn- dicate to satisfy mortgages and debts that had swallowed up ,the last penny of the amount the sale had brought.. But Ann had man- aged to wrangle a job for herself in the sale contract, and that would, she reminded herself, keep • Your Business Directory MEDICAL , SEAFORTH CLINIC E. A. MCMASTER, B.A., M.D. Internist P. L. BRADY, M.D. ' Surgeon • • , Office Hours: 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., daily, except Wednesday and Sun- day. unday. EVENINt Tuesday, Thursday and 9aturd y only, 7-9 p.m. Appointments made in advance are desirable, JOHN A. GORWILL, B.A., M.D. Physician and Surgeon IN DR H. H. ROSS' OFFICE Phones: •-Office 5-W; ' Res. 5-J SeaforthDR. M. M. W. STAPLETON " DR: BOSS HOWSON Physlelar s and Surgeons Phone 90 Seaforth DR. F. J. R. FORSTER • Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Graduate in Medicine, University of Toronto. Late assistant New York Opthal- mei and Aural Institute, Moore- ideld's Eye and Golden Square Throat Hospital, London, Eng. At COMMERCIAL HOTEL, .Seaforth. Next visit, September 21st. 58 Waterloo S.t. South, Stratford. JOHN C: GODDARD, M.D. Physician and Surgeon Phone 110 - Hensel). • C.N.R. TIME TABLE GOING EAST (Morning) A.M. Goderich (leave) 5.40 Seaforth 6.20 7.16 P.M. 3.00 3.46 4.40 Stratford (arrive) (Afternoon) Goderieh (leave) .Beaforth Stratford (arrive) GOING WEST (Morning) .A.,45 •tr'atford,,(leave) ....... . 10.46 ' i i pato% 0.86' Oo4erlolil' (arrive) 12.20 (MT/etymon) 9.op t alfa) (leave) ,. 11.0.21' LEGAL McCONNELL & HAYS Barristers, Solicitors, Etc. PATRICK D. McCONNELL H. GLENN HAYS County Crown Attorney SEAFORTH, ONT. Telephone 174 A. W. SILLERY Barrister, Solicitor, Etc. Phone 173, Seaforth SEAFORTH - ONTARIO OPTOMETRIST M. ROSS SAVAUGE optometrist • Eyes examined and glasses fit ted. • Oculists' prescriptions accur- ately filled: Phone 194, Evenings 120, Seaforth. VETERINARY J. 0: TURNBULL, DrV.M., V.S. Main Street - Seaforth PHONE 105 AUCTIONEERS HAROLD JACKSON - •Specialist in Farm and House- hold Sales. Licensed in Huron and Perth Counties; Prices reasonable; sat- lSfaction guaranteed. For information, etc., write or phone HAROLD JACKSON, 1k on 661, Seaforth; R.R. 4, Seaforth. EDWARD W. ELLIOTT Licensed Auctioneer - Correspondence promptly answer - Immediate arrangements can be nfade for sale dates by phoning 203, Clinton, Charges moderate' and satisfaction guaranteed.` rmation supposed to bowl me over?" a Clayton on the job! Claytons and the Courier! Acombination she would not allow to be broken up as long as she lived. ,The ugly, smoke-stained, grimy looking, four -storied red brick building that housed the Courier loomed before her and she stepped inside and looked at herself anx- iously in the long mirror beside the elevator. Her jade -green tweeds were smart looking, and didn't look a year old; her shining blue -black hair swept up at just exactly the right angle to meet the silly, en- gaging' little hat; her gray eyes,, with their thick black Iaahe% were a little scared, but she made her- self smile and that wiped out the fear. flooded, a Iittle, relieved that the reflection did her so much cred- it, and took a certain amount of composure from the thought as the elevator descended and she step- ped into it. The city room had not changed e happily, a scrap, she told herself 1Y pp y, and sniffed delightedly at tht well= remembered smell of ink and glue and typewriter carbon and ciga- rette smoke and a thousand other ingredients that all added their note to the "newspaper office smell:" • • Half a d'ozen,coatless men sat draped at typewriters; the news tickers talked in muted tones and a bored re -write • man sat lis - ' n A man glanced up at Ann, . ,eked pleased at the sight of her a,:•al- most forgot himself so far as o remove 'the cigarette from his mouth and stand up, almost, • but not quite. He remembered just in time and merely looked at her in- quiringly—and with interest. '"Tracy Driscoll?" h'e repeated her question and jerked a thumb to- wards a corner where a man sat at a. batter4ed desk,• two or three telephones before him, a' mass of untidy papers piled up in front of him. "Over there." Ai Ann neared the desk where Tracy Driscoll sat, one of the tele- phones barked at him and he snatched it up. A moment later he was roaring furiously, "What the' blankety-blank, double -starred infernal so-and=so ,do ' you mean, you can't get it? . So he'll kick you downstairs, and we'll sue him —and it'll be an even better story =so what? , . . Look, Hayden, either get the story, or • get your cheque at the cashier's window'. Is that clear?" He banged the telephone down without waitingfor the man to an- swer, and Ann stared at him, wide- eyed. ., As :though he felt her gaze, ' he looked up at her and his eyes were green fire, blazing with an- ; ger, and his thick dark red hair stood on end as though -he had a habit of runningrestless, angry fingers through it. ' His eyes swept Ann from the top of her shining head to the tips of the neat brown brogues, and he - didn't seem at all.. impressed. He only growled, "Society Department on the next floor," and went back to- reading copy. , "1 know," Ann told him gently. "I'm not .:1•ooking for the Society Department—I'm looking for you. I'm Ann Clayton." The big,.redh'ertded, green-eyed, angry young than looked up at her again; •aliid .as his eyes swept over her once more the drawled 'sweetly. "So you're Ann,Clayton! Do tell! is that information supposed to bowl me over?" "I don't know." Ann's voice matched his for sweetness tipped with venom and the glint in her eyes had deepened. "Do you bowl easily? I hope not, for if I'm go- ing to work here—" "If you're going to work here," he cut in neatly. -"Which, of course, you're' not--" "Ob, but I am, Mr. Driscoll," she JOSEPH L. RYAN- ' Specialist itt farm, stock and, bol- plemettts and hoiteehald. effects. Satisfaction guaranteed. Licensed in •Nitron and, Perth Gottntieti, .' ii'or partioulats and open dates,. write or Ooze 1nOSEP11 . I11tATT, It,it: 1, Dublin. Mdne 40 r 5 iSttblilt. 4174fd Fdi:2ra":tlttsi�di`�i;1S Sit Shown 'above is Canada's first streamlined diesel pas§anger locomotive—Canadian Paoific's 1800. Delivered. to thef C.P.R. by General Motors, the 2,250 -horsepower locomotive was tine of the first of the new E-8 design to come off the assembly Iine•of the G -M plant at LaGrange, Illinois. She will be. joined' shortly by two sister en- gines, completely dieseliziraj MentreaVto Boston passenger trains. Freight service on' the line, between Montreal and Wells Rivers, Vt., has already been dieselized. N. R. Crump (left insdt), vice-president of the Canadian Pacific Railway, is shown receiving a gold reverser handle, from C. R. Osborn, vice-president of General, Motors and general manager of the •Electro -Motive Division at LaGrange, at theoceremonies when the giant diesel was turned over. Mr. Osborn said that the memento was symbolic of the inaugutration of diesel - powered passenger service in Canada. • told him sweetly, giving him her very best smile,' whose effect was somewhat spoiled by the fury in her eyes. "I•t says so in the sales contract. Remember?" ',with Tracysat erecti•th a startled ,w, s look in his eyes that only deepen- ed their anger. - "Oh, so you're the' g:r1 Jerome told me about," he burst out,•obvi- ously just remembering. Ann set her teeth and counted rapidly to ten, 'trying to tell her- self it wasn't' ladylike to smack him, much hs she yearned- to do just that. But when she had count - d• to ten, she was 4- little surpris- e. ' o. , : - r a voice that soundly vaguely lilt hers, but couldn't have been because it was calm and con. trolled, almost serene. "Look, Mr. Driscoll, I don't `know just why it is that -the very sight of me seems to infuriate you beyond all rea- son—" "You flatter yourself. my sweet," said -Tracy and in his tone- the last two words became an insult, "I'm infuriated because .the war hasn't left me'a single. solitary reporter with a nickel's worth of brains," "But that's where you're wrong., Mr. Driscoll." Ann's voice still' sounded mild ar.d gentle, though her eyes were blazing. "The war has lent you me. and I've got at least fifty cents worth of brainat' and they are completely at the Courier's service." ' "Do tell!", Tracy drawled again, rocking his chair a little. his bit- ter, derisive green eyes taking her in again; taking plenty of time about it thistime, lingering a lit- tle. .Then suddenly, he straighten-, ed up, brought himself back' to his coPY, and said curtly, "Look, why don't you run away and play with your dolls, Baby? I've got Work.,to do." Once more Ann was very still, her hands clenched, tightly, and counted to ten before she said through her teeth :" "Look here,,, MI-. Smarty Pants. my great -great- grandfather founded the Courier and Claytons have run it all its life—" "Until the Claytons ran a swell, newspaper into complete oblivion and my syndicate bought it' arid sent. me down here to pull it out of a hole," Tracy., remihded her dryly, `'With Haynes Jerome, who has been on the paper since tb.e.. was a twelve -year-old copy boy, as man- aging editor. and a clause in the contract that says I am to have a job if I like," 'Ann finished neatly. "And I do like, so where's my desk and my typewriter and where. do I hang my hat?" -Tracy's eyes swept her again and he said grimly, ."Like I said, the society's department's on the next floor—" "You don't Bear very well, do you, Mr. Driscoll?" asked Ann wearily. "There's no vacancy in the society,departmeht'and if there were, I wouldn't • want it. I'nm a graduate journalist of a good col- lege." Tracy groaned and put his head" in his hands and his elbows Flying the flag indicators of a manifest special tide milldam and .powerful tottli`diesel lirovides appropriate background for Donald Gordonwho wit preside over he destinies of the Canadian National System beginning January 1.. The Thankless' (Continued from Page 6) still one more reason why •parents do not like teachers. They are afraid to think what they•woul'dsdo 'without them during the five or six hours of every day when the teachers act as servants, tending children in lieu of their mothers. Let's bre honest with ourselves. How long will our unconscious re- sentment against, teachers prevent us from granting them a standard. of living which will place.them on an economic level with ourselves? How long is -it. going to take us to grant teachers the prestige which the importance of their work de- serves? Or are we going to con- tinue to, think of them as we do' now, as 'a class of superior seri° ants, generally unreliable,, occasion- ally noble,,. and picturesque, upon whom we 'depend to have certain tasks performed which we are un- able or unwilling to perform our: selves? Perhaps. it would be easier to grant prestige to teachers if we realized more fully the nature. and - demands of ,their worth It is a commonly • held belief .hat Mell- ing is an easy life because the teacher, gets off at four every af- ternoon, does no work our. Satur- days, and has long summer holi- days. Yet no myth could be more contrary to the truth. So far from being easy, good teaching is one of the most ardu- ous, exacting and difficult tasks a. human being can perform. To teach well requires an unending- expense of a man on woman's spirit. There is no system, no formula, no .train- ing which will mitke possible 'an avoidance of . this expense of spir- it. Anyone, with a callous mind and no imagination can be a drill -mas- ter, but only the most sensitive and sympathetic spirits can really teach, and only the strongest con- stitutions can, endure the ".long strain of a school year. To teach well means more than the trs- ference of knowledge; it means Itis transference of some of one's own energy to the pupil. 'I have known teachers` who shrank from doing this,' but none of them was suc- cessful. I have never known a good teacher who did not do it at least parr of every day he worked. - It is this ,necessity of out -giving whichmakesgood teaching so rack- ing to the nervous system, just as it also makes being -a. teacher some- thing of a reward in itself. A man now-liigtf tri Canadian public life who once taught with . the inten- tion of remaining in the profession, told- me that no cabinet meeting had ever drained his vitality so deeply as one hard day in the class room. Woodrow Wilson, during the 4lrst term of his presidency. admitted to a professor under whom I later worked that he had never encountered tensions in the White House greater than those he had endured during his presidency of• Princeton. It is true that Wil- son's last years in Princeton were distracted by an intramural cou- tro'versy of violent severity. but it Is also true that Wilson was a great te'acher' and the intensity on his desk, but Ann went steadily on, "and I was promised a job in the city room' and here I am ready to go to work!" - While Ann and Tracy kept.argu- ing on about just who was and who Wasn't going to work for the Cour- ier, neither 'of them noticed the big, middle-aged, well-groomed man who had emerged from a pri- vate office opening/ off ., the city room. He' stood, a little uneasily. near them. His round, rather florid face, lit with pale blue eyes, wore a slight- ly hunted look. but he stepped for- ward, saying briskly, "Well, well, Ann, how are you? I aee'ydu and Mr. Driscoll have already met—" "Oh, very definitely!".. Ann as- sured Haynes Jerome as she put her hands in his, 'Tracy sa14 furiously, "Now eee here, Jerome, 1 can't have 'the ga per weighted down with amateurs and .'high 4ehool kids. I've got a paper to -get out—" • (Continued Nett Week) -. .which -he summoned to his work itself the main .cause of the controversy which nearly ruined his health. " Under the best of circumstances the teacher deals ,with humanity in the raw, with a clamorous human- ity which in these days feels no reverence for elders and is quick to exploit every weakness of any- one in authority. Igy the constant exercise of wit, personality and such spiritual force as he possess- es; the teacher must. canalize the diffuse energies of" ::growing chil- dren:into tasks which few of them ,have an instinct to perform. Only the most vital' and capable of men and• women are able to do .this work well. )ti w e 1. We therefore dour; a selves the greatest possible dis- service in our obstinate refusal to make the Itioaching profession on one which vita and capable people are eager to enter, It is ridiculous to expect a good teacher to be hum- ble. On the, contrary, everything possible should be done to foster his independence . and self-confi- dence. Not one man in five thou- sand can feel confidence and inde- pendence if he lives in poverty... Right now. is a very good time to stop our hypocritical pretense 'that it is impossible to improve the Status of teachers in Canada. We can have the finest system of pub- lic education in the world within tea years of taking one rgcessary step: pay our teachers at least three times what we pay them now and require a college'degree from ever one of them, It is -idle to pretend that we cannot afford to do it. Of course 'we can if we want to enough, Let us be honest and recognize that it s we ourselves who are responsible for the trag- edy of our country's teachers, and fpr the fact that our public schools are at the present time a national disgrace. Amea:''ie lin at the hR�r' bla b to Association, off' Pt * 0, 1%nsas aceoidllrg to Sea. sistaiit Clllef (Seed Potato " cation), bi:00on of'. Pld!ni Pr tion; Safenoe ,Servicer Dt1!awa, addition -to Ur.Sea43n011, - o Canadian 4rfficiale .. •aytte.nding •th ' Meeting* ial•eluded. N M. , .ante,' Potato ••Specialist, Central JxPeri-' mental Farm, Ottawa; Dr , W; te S Kemp, O.A,C., GuelPb S. .?.. Pep pin. District Inspector4m-Charge,. Seed Potato Certification, Charlot- tetown, P.E.I., • and Mrs. J. B ams, Dominion. Entomological Lab- oratory, Fredericton, N.B. Over twenty-five papers were presented during the 'three-day meeting. Various topics relative to potato production problems. in Canada and the United States were. discussed, ranging from disease. control tb the utilization of petajso:. by-products. One paper was ot particular interest not only to virus research workers, but to all certi- fied seed potato growers interest- ed nteresteid in maintaining disease-free seed stocks. This was delivered by R. H. Larson, University of Wiscon- sin, entitled, "The Spread of Ring - spot Virus X By Cutting Knife." Working with the Chippewa and Katandin varieties, the American. scientist found that only, 2.4 per cent transmission occurred when the eyed were avoided .in cutting, but that when at least two eyes were damaged by the cutting knife, the transmission rate jumped to 52 per cent infection. Three papers were given by the Canadian members; one by Mrs. J. B. Adams on "Potato Aphid Control Studies"; one by N. M. Parks, entitled "Procedure for the Introduction of New Varieties of Potatoes in Canada," and one by S. G. Peppin, "Seed Potato Cer- tification in Canada." Other papers presented dealt with such 'topics as the use of various tap killers chem:ical.. ,weed control, use of sulphur in scab control, insect control and crop yields, tests.wwith new fungicides ici d s and other .subjects vital to successful, potato produc- tion. The 'mighty little Classified Ads. in The Huron Expositor bring best results. - Phone 41, Seaforth. Seaforth Monument Works T.. PRYDE & SON Memorial Craftsmen Seaforth Exeter Clinton Seaforth Showrooms Open Tuesday See Dr, -Harburn for 'appoint- ment any other time, or Phone 41-.1 Exeter. ItaGnot'.. 1, uni1.y that , t 41, that duringthe ztxore liquor is pux'c' 'Rixnnkin goes 04'tb, ;opason ;of the year . 'it short •of bias henry to rbirjlzday of G rist W t 0j4ing ,Shame of ed! Christiana *iio tut*. 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Not to mine, this horrible crippler: -Not-ft; mine this thing with the long scientific name, poliomyelitis, this thing that means misery and pain in the language of the little ones. Not to mine to wear a brace, to hobble, to limp: Not to mine to hear the laughter of others, to watch them at play, to cry the bitter tears of childhood lost forever. r Please God! Not to mine! And let me help those to whom it does come, this crippler, this destroyer. • Let me give to help the helpless: Let my dollars• and my prayers go with these little ones} that some day, some time, children everywhere will walk without fear, free of childhood's greatest enemy, Poliomyelitis. 1 am glad 1 have the privi- lege, of giving to the Canadian March, of Dimes. ,•v Give to. , THE 'CANADIAN' MARCH Or - DIMES, (The Canadiaa4Fosndation; for Pol owyelit(s), 410 BLOOR ST. EA`5"1','[ORONTO, Space contributed " - in the service of t h i ,a community by, ;TOM: Labatt. lirtfte.k• A 74th BREWERS SINGE (832