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Port Perry Star (1907-), 6 Dec 1934, p. 1

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ns ig $1.50 por year In advance : 5 cents single copy ve Watch your label it tolls when your ~ subscription expires, PORT PERRY, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6th, 1934 SAMUEL FARMER, Editor and Publisher power, "General News. of the Week. An army tank has been invented with a maximum speed of sixty miles an 'hour, and sustained speed of thirty miles an, hour, PRP John B. "Allsop; of Wembley, Alberta, was crowned wheat! King at the Hay and Grain Show. at Chicago. second place. Montana took * % % 'Ten Red Army Officers were executed on a charge of being party to a conspiriey to assassinate the Soviet leaders in Russia. * % ~The "Seaway program is at a standstill, Ontario has now a surplus of hydro power, and the Province will frm you. It is unstealable. The claim 'is that Sa-- ZR How to Live on Twenty-F our : Hours _ (Readers' ~The proverb that time is money understates the case, Time is the in- | explicable raw material of everything. Without it nothing is possible. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, You wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of your life! It is yours. The most precious of possessions showered upon you in a manner as singular as the t commodity itself! For remark! No one can take it And no: not contribute $100,000,000 to forward a scheme to produce more one receives either more or less than , Of course, there are other factors in the plan. LEE The sensational event of the week was s the mass meeting to hear Tim Buck at the Maple Leaf Gardens on Sunday night. Fifteen thousand persons crowded the arena and three thousand could not gain admittance. The speaker dealt with the abuses alleged to be part of the Canadian prison System, * ¥ & The acting captain and the chief engineer of the "Morro respect, and the evolution of your im- Castle" are to be tried for negligence, misconduct and inattention moral soul. to duty. The "Morro Castle" was the yossel burned at sea with live on a certain income of money, one. the loss of 134 lives. The memoirs of Lloyd George are causing much controversy. Mr, Stewart Lyon head of the Hydro-Electric Commission spoke strongly of the Lloyd George criticisms of Sir Doug as Haig. * & % The coroner's jury brought in a verdict of death by arsenic poisoning, administered by some person or persons unknown, at progress. Further investigations are in : A ER The former Hydro chiefs are. being eked' to repay the been able to get our lives into proper $4553.1 73 used for the "sleuth fund" or detective service, EE) 3 " Ri = inh i The gasoline tax in Ontario amounted to $1,391, 128 for Novefphery an increase of $468,226 over November of last year, 4 * * *® Galt, Alexandria, and Lancaster, all in Glengarry County; lost their beer and wine licenses, and cannot regain same until after These towns had voted for: liquor stores, but th at vote did not inglude the right to a beer and wine license. a vote of the people. ¥ % % i reached the low price of 66. per quart. in the 'Hamilton cut vate war. FEE - Attorney ceieral Roebuck is advo Y fast - ting the establishment 0 a school for police where expert inst ction will be available to the police throughout the Province. < x xB The Ontario Public Works Department has been given control of the building the Victoria Industrial School at Mimico. ok "Baby Face" Nelson has been found in a-ditch--dead from I think it is rather fine, too, this Buiet wounds received in the battle with Federal Officers. ® KR ¥ Hon, H. H. Stevens states that "Big Business" controls Gov- ernment of Canada, That is no news to many people, who realize that these people can afford to make concerted advances and con- trols in matters of legislation. * % % A citizenship bill was recently drafted by the President of the Irish Free State. "The proposed Irish statute is designed to class- ify natives of the Free State, even though they may not be resi- dent there, as Free' State citizens. "This makes possible an inter- pretation that "no one in ue Free State will be a British subject." Recs BN t 2 i i Harrow, Petrolia and Chesley voted against installing bever- supply of time is that you cannot age rooms. - * % % Dr. A. R. Dafoe, of Dionne Quintuplet fame, has been nomi-' 88 perfect, as uhspoilt, as if you had: ~ nated for the Nobel Prize. * 3 Mayor M. M. McBride, of Brantford; was defeated in the. recent municipal elections. * x % : Thirty-nine "white guards" from Leningrad are arrested for _conspiracy--the probable result will be death sentence. * % * Charles Fuller, business administrator of Schools at Oshawa, has received the appointment to a similar position in Toronto. * % % - Hon. H. H. Stevens is demanding immediate action in con- nection with the "price probe", and Industries Commission, He will propose a Federal Trade . LB] ; Jolin Ross, Reeve of Thorah Township, has retired from municipal life after many years of faithful service. . * % » Robbers have been operating in Whitby and Pickering, oie ~ broken into stores in each place. ae Asa result of the decision to have all the Voters' Lists printed at Ottawa, they will not be ? Tealy for distribution until after Feb ruary 16th. The shares in; the Bank of Canada iy now been allotted. The shares have a par value of $50 eac mallowed to have more than 156 Divi "holders in all, each of whorn ise a resident hy: ¥ nd no one person f ' mands. ! gin 7" re are 2.12, 147 share- you receive. Wealth or genius is a Day Digest.) . livelihood--how much? Seven hours, on the average? And in actual sleep, seven? I will add two hours, and be generous. And I will defy you to ac- count to me on the spur of the mo- ment for the other eight hours. The Course of the Trouble To come to grips with the situation, I must choose a typical case--say a Londoner who works in an office. Now the great mistake which my typical man makes in regard to his day is 4 mistake of general attitude which vitiates two-thirds of his energies and interests. In the majority of in- stances he does not precisely feel a i never rewarded by even an extra hour 'a day. And there is no punishment.: Waste this precious commodity as you will, and the supply will never be withheld from you, You have to live on this 24 hours "of daily time. . spin health, pleasure, money, content, If one can't contrive to earns a little more, or one braces the muscles and halances the budget. But {if one cannot arrange that an income of 24 hours a day shall exactly -cover all proper {tems of expenditure, 'one , does muddle one's whole life defi. ' nitely. ® to himself all his life: "I shall alter the inquest into the cause of the death of Donald H. Wilson, this or that when I have a little more - publisher of the Port Hope Guide. time?' Which of us i$ not haunted Out of it you have to] passion for his business . He begins + his business functions with reluctance, jas late as he can, and he ends them Toi joy, as early as he can. And his engines while he is engaged in his business are seldom at their ful h.p." Yet in spite of all this he persists in looking upon those hours from ten to six as "the day," to which the ten hours preceding and the six hours fol- lowing are nothing but a prologue and and epilogue. Such an attitude of course Kills his interest in the odd 16 hours, with the result that, even if he does not waste them, he does not count them; he regards them simply as margin, If a man makes two-thirds are 124 hours a day instead of 24. 1 am an impassioned reader of news- papers. Hence it is not prejudice when I say that since they are pro- duced with rapidity, to be read with rapidity, there is no place in my daily program for them. I read news- papers as I may in odd moments. As for devoting to them 80 or 40 con- secutive minutes of wonderful solitude 1 cannot possibly allow you to scatter priceless pearls of time with such Oriental lavishness. You are not the Shah of time. Let me respectfully remind you that you have no more time than I have. No newspaper reading in train! I have already "put by" about three quarters of an hour for use. Now you reach your office, And I abandon you there till six o'clock. I am aware that you have an hour in the midst of the day, less than half of which is given to eating. But I will leave you all that to spend as you choose. You may read your news- papers then. I meet you again as you emerge from your office. You are pale and tired. At any rate, your wife says you are pale, and you give her to undepstand that you are tired. You don't cat immediately on your arrival home. But in about an hour or so you feel as if you could sit up and take a little nourishment. Then you smoke, seriously; you sce friends; you potter;- you play cards; you flirt with a book; you note that old age is creep- ing on; you take a stroll; you caress the plano . By Jove! a quarter lof his - existence subservient to one- | past eleven, time to think about going Which of us has not been saying third, for which admittedly he has no|to bed! You then devote quite 40 Sbsblately feverish zest, how can he minutes to thinking about it, and at hope to live fully and completely ? He | cannot. by the feeling that the years-stip=s Fs live fully and completely he must "and slip by, and that we have not yet 'working order? We have, and we ~have always had; all the time there is. It is the realization of this profound -and neglected truth that has led me to the minute practical examination of daily time-expenditure. . Precautions Before Beginning The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily budget of 24 hours is the calm reailzation of the extreme difficulty of the task, of 'the sacrifices ,and the endless effort which it de- I cannot too strongly insist on this, If you are not prepared for discouragements, if you will not be | content with 'a small result for a big effort, then do not begin. Lie down again: and resume. the uneasy doze | which you call your existence. It is very sad, is it not? And yet necessity for the tense bracing of the y will before anything worth doing can be done. I. feel it to be the chief thing that differentiates me from the cat by the fire. "Well," you say, "assume that I am braced for the battle! How do I be- Dear sir, you simply begin. If a man at a swimming-bath, want- ing to jump into the cold water, should ask you, "How do I begin to junp?" you would merely reply, "Just jamp. | Take hold of your nerves and jump." The chief beauty about the constant waste it in advance. The next day, the next hour are lying ready for you,! never wasted a single moment in your career, Therefore no object is 'served in walting till 'next week, or' even until tomorrow. But before you begin, let .me warn you against your own ardor. Ardor is a treacherous thing. You can't satisfy it at first; il is eager to move mountains and divert the course of rivers. And then, too often, it wearies all of a sudden and dies, Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Allow for accidents. Al- low for human nature, especially your own. A glorious failure leads to nothing; a petty success may lead to a success that is not. petty. There- fore, in setting out on the immense enterprise of living fully wtihin the narrow limits of 24 hours a day, let us avoid at any cost the risk of an early failure. Now let us examine the budget of the day's time, You say your day is already full to overflowing, How! You actually spent in earning your arrange a day within a day. And this inner day, a Chinese box in a larger Chinese box, must begin at 6 p.m. and end at 10 a.m. During all these' 16 hours" he has nothing whatever to do but cultivate his body and his. soul and his fellow men. During those 1 16 hours he is free; he is not a wage- __e¢arner; he is just as good as a man with a private income. This must be his attitude. And his attitude is all important. His success in life depends on it, Full energy given to those 16 hours will assuredly increase the value of the business eight. One of the chief things which my typical man has to learn is that the mental faculties are capable of a continuous hard activity, they do not tire like an arm or a leg. All they want is change--not rest, except in sleep. In examining the typical man's method of employing the 16 hours that are entirely his, I will merely indicate things which he does which I think he ought not to do, postponing my suggestions for, "planting" the times which I shall have cleared--as a 'settler clears spaces in a forest, In justice I must say that he wastes very little time before he leaves the house in the morning, at 9.10. In too many houses he gets up at nine, breakfasts between 7.7 and 99%, and then bolts. But immediately he bangs the front door, his mental faculties, which are tireless, become idle. He "walks to the station in a condition ot mental coma. Arrived there, he us- {ually has to wait for the train. At ; hundreds of suburban stations every morning you sce men calmly strolling up and down platforms while railway | companies unblushingly rob them of { time, which is more than money. { Hundreds of thousands of hours are thus lost every day because my typical man thinks so little of time.that it has never occured to him to take quite easy precautions against the Yisk of its loss. He has a solid coin of time to spend every day--call it a sovereign. He must get change for it, and in getting change he is content to lose heavily. For that is what he does when the company robg him of five minutes twice a day. You say I am dealing with minutiw. I am. And later on I will justify my- self, Now will you kindly buy your paper and step'into the train? Tennis and the Immortal Soul You get into the morning train and you calmly give yourself up to your newspaper, Your air is the air of a leisured man, wealthy in time, of a man from some planet where there Port Perry Christmas Fair is Set for Thurs., Dec. 20. | about going to bed." last you go to bed, exhausted by the day's work. Six hours, probably "more, have gone since you left the "of fice--gone like a dream, gone like magic, unaccountably 'gone! " That is a fair sample case. But you say: "It's all very well for you to talk. A man is tired. A man must see his friends. He can't always be on the stretch." Just so. But when you arrange to go thé theater (espe- cially with a pretty woman) what happens? You spare no toil to make yourself glorious in fine raiment; vou rush back to town; you keep yourself on the stretch for four hours, if not five; you take her home; you take yourself home. You don't spend three quarters of an hour in "thinking about" going to bed. You go. Friends and fatigue have equally been forgot- * ten, and the evening has seemed ex- quisitely long (or perhaps too short)! And do you remember that time when you were persuaded to sing in the chorus of the amateur operatic society and slaved two hours every other night for three months? Can you deny that when you have something definite to look forward to at eventide, something that is to employ all your encrgy--the thought of that some- thing gives a glow and a more intense - vitality to the whole day? What I suggest is that at six o'clock you look facts in the face and admit that you are tired "(because you are not, you know), and that you arrange your evening so that it is not cut in the middle by a meal. By so doing vou will have a clear expanse of at least three hours. I do not suggest that should employ three hours every night of your life in using up your mental energy. But I do suggest that you might, for a commencement, em- ploy an hour and a half every other evening in some important and con- secutive cultivation of the mind. You will still be left with three evenings for friends, bridge, tennis, domestic scenes, odd reading, pipes, gardening, and pottering. You will still have the terrific wealth of 45 hours between 2 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. Monday. If you persevere you will soon want to pass four evenings, and perhaps five in some sustained endeavour to he genuinely alive. And you will fall out of that habit of muttering to yourself at 11.15 p.m., "time to be thinking The man who begins to go to bed 40 minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored, that is to say, he is not living. (Continued on page 8) POW New Justices of the Peace The following have been appointed for Ontario County--G. 8S. Vernon, Uxbridge; J. M. Hicks, Whitby; Allan Wallace, Port Perry; James Birchard, Beaverton; James: Edgar Purvis, Can- nington; Richard N, Stockill, Oshawa; Charles Hurtibise, Brechin. SUNDERLAND The Young People's Society of the United Church would like you to bear in mind and take advantage of the program being presented by the Peter- boro Instrumental Trio--Mr. Ceeil Searles, violinist; Mr. Thomas Smith, 'celloist; Murs. C. Searles, A.T.C.M.,, pianist; assisted by Mr. Cyril Rice, tenor; and Mr, C. Lewis, cartoonist and ventriloquist, on Friday, Dee. 7. The committee are very fortunate in seeuring this group of high olass en- tertainers. This entertainment will be the treat of the season. Admission 26¢ and 15¢. Many from herve attended the Junior Officers dance held in the Armouries in Lindsay on Friday night. } The funeral of the late Ephriam Thompson who passed away at his home in Sunderland on Monday, Nov. 26th, was held from his late residence on Wednesday afternoon at 2 p.m. The late Mr. Thompson was in his 56th year, and has been ailing in health for sometime, The funeral service was preached by the Rev. R. M. Patterson, of the United Church, who spoke very highly of the deceased. Left to mourn his loss are his widow, two daughters, Mrs. Roy Johnson, Manilla, Mrs. Clayton Wood, Sunderland, and five sons, George of Sutton, Fred, Arthur, Farl and Mack, at home. . Interment was made at Sunderland Cemetery. - The cuchre and dance held in the Township Hall on Friday night was a decided success. The winners for the cuchre were Mrs, H. Brethour and Mr. Herman Buckley; consolation prizes went to Cassie Harris and Mr. H. St. John. The music for the dancing was supplied by the Sunderland Orchestra. . ) The A.Y.P.A. of St. Mary's Church, Sunderland, paid a friendly visit to St. Paul's A.Y.P.A. of Uxbridge, on Mon. day evening and put on a very fine program consisting of solo by Miss Ruth Mollon, guitar solo by Miss B. Kay, duet by Misses Evelyn and Bessie Kay; also a play by Misses Cassie Harris, Margaret Marquis. Fvelyn Kay -and Ruth Mollon. Mr. Albert Teece, president of the Sunder- land A.Y.P.A. thanked the Uxbridge A.Y.P.A. for inviting them to attend their meeting, and invited them to re- turn the visit™in the near future. Rev. Mr. Powell spoke a few words saving the Uxbridge A.Y.P.A. were very glad to have the Sunderlana voung people and hoped that then visits would be frequent. A social half hour was spent in some very in- teresting games and contests, after which the Uxbridge A.Y.P.A. served a dainty lunch. po -------- PRINCE ALBERT The Community Club held their first social evening last Friday night. Quite a number were present from Man- chester, Miss I.. Murphy was appoint- ed organist. Two representatives of the Young Men's Bible Class at Port Perry were at the Church on Sunday to invite the Young Men's Class of Prince Albert to attend their banquet and to enjoy the address of Rev. Archer Wallace. In the absence of Rev. Mr. Smyth, on Sunday, Mr. S. Farmer, of Port Perry, took charge of the service and gave a very helpful and thought provoking address on Remember Thy Creator in the days of thy youth; and what shall the Lord require of thee, but to do justly to love mercy and to walk humbly with Thy God. in The spring-like weather of the last two weeks has been very welcome. budding and bulbs green sprouts, On Thursday, November 29th, the school holiday was used by the boys in levelling and working up the school vard so it can be used for skating by flooding it from the school pump. Mrs. L. Ball and Miss Hiscox visited bushes are their Rose are "showing their sister Mrs. Boxall of Lindsay, one day last week. Mrs. C. I. Vickery, who has been staying wtih her daughter Mrs, Cecil Jeffrey, has gone to Toronto. Miss B. Smith of Niagara-on-the- Lake, visited recently with her mother Mrs. L. Smtih and her grandmother Murs, Sellers. Mrs. Peter Raymer visited her sister Mrs, Barkey, of Stouffville, last week, going from there to Toronto to attend the Royal Winter Fair, a Pe DON'T FORGET the dates of the High School Com- mencement--December 13th and 14th. See bills for details. THE YOUNG MEN'S BIBLE CLASS Forty-one out Sunday and. one hundred and twenty at the banquet-- oy! oy! wasn't the depression terrible? The men were wondering on Sunday whether the two talent or five talent man -accomplished the most--what do you think?" 'Mr. Gemmell outlined the theory of Evolution to the class and: then conducted a discussion. This fact brought out; scientists agree to a degree on the theory but fail to agree on the details that make up the theory. Was you there--Charley 7--I mean at the banquet. Everybody is chant- ing the success of this function,--good food provided by good women that we men can neither get along with or - . without,--good - speeches from able speakers, and music that would put a baby to sleep--or wake him up. I couldn't begin to store up in my feeble brain all that was said Monday night, but I will try and give you an idea (right or wrong) of what: the speakers were talking about. This is the order in which they spoke, but you know that saying about the worst shall be first or what have you, Believe it or not Tom Harris and Sam Cawker were supposed to be humorists. They spoke respectively on Parrots, the Widow Brown ana Cats. R. G. Gemmell--the ladies, the ban- quet committee, bachelor ministers, . ministers, engagement rings, pro- posals, bank interest and class inter- est--a toast to the King, R. J. Harris--a toast to the church, the spiritual need--the Church of God --the Church that lives by the Christ- ian Principles. Rev. W. J. H, Smyth--a reply to the toast to the Church, Fred Reesor--a toast to the Sun- day School. Topic--*"A third class ticket on the Nip and Tuck" or "Get out and Push." R. B. Smallman--a reply to the toast to the Sunday School. "The missing link--*that's us, boys, that's us." A wish for all young men to have courage. Rev. Archer Wallace--"Religion in a changing World." Roy Cornish--moved a vote of thanks to Dr. Wallace, expressing the feeling that he had made them better men by reason of his words. Mansel Gerrow--a hearty seconder. The motioff carried unanimously. Victor Stouffer--a violin solo--*"The Old Refrain" accompanied by Miss Helen Mellow. Storey Tom "Down by the Old Mill Stream" ac- companied by Grant Kilpatrick. Merlin Letcher and Storey Beare conducted the class singing ably ac- companied by the class pianist Grant Kilpatrick. : Soa Auld Lang Syne." Good Night Ladies. "Till We Meet Again. Beare, Charles Heartfield, The Ladies Aid and Y.P.S. are hold- ing a social evening in the basement on Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hart with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kendall on Sunday. A splendid crowd attended the play and dance on Friday night under the auspices of the Bluebird Club. Pro- ceeds $60.10. Miss Jean Miller js visiting her sister Mrs. Geo. Offen, Cedargrove, Sorry to report Mr. John Henry is under the doctor's care. Mr. and Mrs, Earl Howsam and family of Altona, with Mr. and Mrs. Harold Kerry, on Sunday. Rags 'The FIRESIDE PHILOSOPHER, By ALFRED BIGGS hy! Learn to radiate happiness, . . LJ All wealth Is produced by labor, LJ . . Indiscriminate giving is no help. . . LJ As well drink polson as be jealous, * oo 0 : It 1s hard for little minds to forgive. . ~ LJ Prosperity and humility rarely live to gether, 0 L] t The rich are In + 'bondage to thelr wealth, . . Ll] N It you cannot obey, you are uufit to command, Harris -- the trio -- "Juanita", a ae ov: ry ', » ps or Hr X= Pr ~ a si)

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