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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1943-02-25, Page 5r., • .;n THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25th, 100 • THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL, LUCKNOW, ONTARI,O Lyceum Theatre W i NGHAM.. Two Shows Saturday Night • Thursday, Friday, Saturday February :25, 26, • •27 ERROL FLYNN NANCY COLEMAN RONALD REAGAN .*•*in*•* Desperate � to 1o�rrra p.�' ey, The • thrilling story of five daring „ airmeq ' and their escape from Germany. Also "News" Matinee Sat. Afternoon 2:30 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday - March 1, 2, .3 ROBERT YOUNG MARGARET O'BRIEN LARAINE DAY * * in * * • Journey for .,Margaret The Story of children in En land, orphaned by the war. \ Also . "Short ' Subjects" DU'NGANI*ION • . • WRITTEN SPEC.IA1.4,.Y, FOR T,ME;' 4WEEKLY"NE'WSPARERS OF CANADA 'JIM. GREENB•LAT, Editor •rot the SUN'' SWIFT 'CURRENT '-SASKATCHEWAN P . The 'author of this series, Jim Greenblat; is the Editor of The Susi, thriving, weekly newspaper published in Swift Current,' ,Sack: He is a native of Winkler,. Man., and attended public and high schools .in Win- " ipeg. He moved , to Swift Current 33 years, ago, and studied law 'until the outbreak of 'the, First Great War, He then'se "ved n•"the Canadian • Army from 1915, to 1919, and 'inas; wounded 'an. Fr<ance, •''He has been in the weekly newspaper ;business since 1923:,'4and is• a past president " of the Saskatchewan division of, the. , Canadian Weekly 'Newspaper As,. sociation. ' - •At home, he .writes a .sprightly column, for the Sun called "Swift "Swift. Current Through the Looking Glass" , 'in which • he has • .developed the highly •readable and inimitable, style that he. brings to this ..series from Ottawa•. , LOOKING INSIDE THE ENGINE ' human -even- the., experts and eco- .' Call me lucky or not, but I'm_just• nomie advisers; but .they're all aim-. an ordinary. weekly newspaper. edi- -irig towards the . beat . deal • for the -tor who was 'invited to come down greatest • number, ' to involve the to Ottawa, -.that daffy .put, pulsat- least hardship for all ',of us -iri a war ing,, throbbing . with .energy war- Which' is. bringing new and ever in- • heart of a: nation:: which . is such as 'creasing, intricate problems 'affect= staunch and energetic partner of the , ing our very lives. Just remember [..battling,United Na.taons. I was ask- when you, shake • your ' head wisely ed to wite . a.: series' of,.articles • fo at your neighbor and ,say something g. ' bola-.•.`.1then�. _s at_.Ottawa;-',--.that . hpnme--Gansu- •�nption--th_ •at is; -dor-- the -•-a• - g•u-y. -- plain, honest -:to -God folk in `,the' ,one 'tirne. you left the barn doa'r _1 -towns and ;`on the farms. Who . con•-. open, : bossy -wandered -out' -into the stitute• the readers' •• of Canadian. blizzard and you lost•'yourself a hun- weekly newspapers° • dred bucks'or so. '4, • d didn't get: any salary for corm- ' Our. Living Standards involved • ing down here, but they did pay my ° Believe me, if you .and I • are to. expenses. I felt somewhat like your continue eating the'. nutritive 'foods own member • of .Parliament, eatin' necessary. to our complex organ- o•n •the'train,' having .the odd .finger- ism'sk. to fortify us •for what; may bowl .and pretending I was used'.be a long.and terrible war -pull (anti Mr, and Mrs° H. J. L. Eedy • and to it and having the bell hops . "sir after the war) ; if you and I are go - family visited friends' at Stratford me to death. You know, :as well as ing to be.able to continue, . paying on Sunday. Ido, that w aper. editors at, and receiving . wages adequate to a home are merelyfairly. decent continuingstandard of K.suffered:. But with rs. Annie Campbell, who has iliving--. zf-the-producer-azxd laborer• o =en in Goderich• Hospital for •the . t•3�e-of-these-articles; lil��'Itr B. Bennett used to•:say before they is to reap in at least some: worthy `past nine weeks; with a broken leg, . stuck him in the British hall of : ins measure the efforts of his: toil while has • made, very. good .progress. She • t•,He' had his day .and ceased to be"° this war last's without any too ex-' is 86. years of age° Mrs. Campbell ..1 carne to have a personal,. un- plosive disruption—it will be be expects to have the cast • off fhis hampered, uncajoled, unpolit cked cause this organization,: thinks' acts • arid 'continues.' in its (what appears week=end and return to the home look at the Wartime Prices and to'me ` •'.of; her daughter, Mrs: Chas. Alton, Trade Board anti, its mechanism;to be) sincerity' of purpose, 'let th'e' chips fall Where 'the may • AC1 Bill.Sproul cabled his parents' Hoot, it aaffecth 'w • heels• go 'round.'I'propose this •series of articles to w , s the daily alife, the j spl •n -g ni e; iaio • - ._2nd Mrs Jaynes Sproul -Haat. he 'ae- i "' • routine and economies of you and I. had arrived safely in England. 'I don't ,owe' a -.cent -.to:' anyAne in of what I saw in., Ottawa•, ,'Montreal . Mrs. Wm..J McClure, r: and little Ottawa from Donald Gordon. down, and .Torpnto:'I would like tq be able son of Goderich are visiting with in politics or ration cards; so I feel.; to tell you in the same way. your' Mrs: Chas: Durriin and Mr. -and Mrs:, free, •to give you my own impres- own•, editor does when he's .on the Wm. McClure,. ' , . • • sions,, unbiased•,. of, this tremendous- beam about something. I want to. _ __•_ '"---• ..,,__ iy,'vital thin Vhich ls``ord r,b-11-r:'tell, -what' thinks-. the 'head Of • 'the Mrs. Wz• . H Wilson who .is not' -, •g e ingwhole outfit,Chairman of.the Board, very lives, trying to, keep ra mil's in good health, has 'b ern taken to• ahead of inflation and i.thus • prevent Donald: Gordon, that big, dark Scots- . Goderich Hospital. Pus .to 'that - the evils of deflation. after the' war, man who dynamically leads this or - she, had.been-cared for by -her dau Carte Blanche—No Pltnches Pulled, garzization and' who, .by the .way, • ghter, Mrs. Mabel Gould, .R.N., Tor I wasn't ' •asked to- pull punches... might look like .the hardware man p or the blacksmith in Your town. He onto. ' • That shows I •don't look like •a woi- ,talked 'to me as if •I,, myself, meant Miss' Myrtle McIntyre,, employed itieian° I was., given carte•, blanche something in this.. w'o'rd. That, to ...._at__Sky__.Harbor, visited..her mother, to look .inside the•_ engine,_..to aslrme,_was-the-chic--w-hy evezrsten 0 Mrs. Wm, .McIntyre, on Sunday. questions, to'"interview the really grapiters keep the . midnight '•• oil. big names who handle Canada's • burning in this ."Or ganization—and.I iMr ration books are • available great wartime economy, and that M.• do mean to ••woi• •• at kr -Glias-•AlteiVe-•Store this week • zteelf •was a` li ill" Afid' Were ` take from;10 a.m. to•.9rp.m. my • word,fo it, you'd be impressed Research Econ'omi'st Phyllis Turner Miss Annetta , Stewart, daughter Tike I was.. From' 'butter rationing, Then take Mrs. 'Phyllis G: Turner, of Mr. and. Mrs. Win., Stewart is ill to subsidies the ninon' doing the job administrator for Oils' and Fats., for aare in m inion, sincere Canada and a -member of the United with scarlet. fever in Toronto. She . • y . , patrioti , •' Nations • Committee on these vital has been 'attending Toronto Uni • hard • working and don't. let anyone f , g cominodities. • She s a former 'chief. versity for the past threeye'ars . guff you about politics and bureau- research economist •of 'the' Tariff cracy, It's • all such a. colossal but Board; a strikingly` beautiful women Mrs. Stephen' Stothers fell last necessary things doing . a tremendously .big job in week ' at` her ' home breaking three : • They ;admit mistakes have been , soQmething you 11. be intensely inter- ribs. Made.. They, also 'admit they, •are . es�ted to hear about -later if you stick with 'me long enough in this ,series. • Then , ther"e's .Kenneth W: Taylor • who'I talked'. with, Secretary of the ' Board,' a McMaster man,• an econo- mist ` mis't of stand}ng, who Certainly knows what it's all. about: His type of person '(like the others) doesn't have tofiddle with polities. 'And: :women readers will surely be inter: ested .in what • Byrne Hope Sanders told me. She's better known: as Ed- icor. of Chatelaine . and now heads , Consumers branch • division; - with its ...farthing chain- of "watching" local committees. • Behind. her discerning, intelligent eyes you could visualize her 'as a young morn in the kitchen slicing around the pie dough. ' - Information From Source Are yqu interested' in hoarding. etc? You'd' , be surprised what I learned from 'Fred ,'A. McGregor. :administrator .of 'the Enforcement division. You'd take ^him • for your own church minister. He 'doesn't look like Himmler and hates anyone who gets tough, bi.lt he's sure a firm _...�; guy..,_His.:division,-._und.erstandably, has a big job and he's concerned. ainly-ova•th he. elld-w whe--vvant,n, ,'' , to gyp you. and I. Then there's 'Dr. G. E. Britnell, .a Saskatchewan uni- versity man, economic '.adviser to the Foods Adininistration.. Why that man's heat is always full of butter, ✓` eggs; hags, cheese, beef and -milk as Canada's farms* collectively are. He sees the , picture more than he does statistics. More. about that later, too Imagine rationing .niillions'.of peo- ple, card's and stuff, 'That wb' iaiaho-your- head- sw4 z -,A -M•entreel; and 'I'll try to explain , later; logi- cally, ^ how, L. B. Unwin, a C.P.R. Vice-Pr..e'sidentr- and his follet - go about it. And • what -do you think, is in.the mind 'of placid adiniinistrator H. H. Bloom at Toronto, who ,hand les what you can get in farm mach-' inery in this greatest of agricultural neo iYtries? ••There--were-maliy-,iithers: Clean telephone /ices for our to ep , one 18 par o dmigr:iiituriarktirrly, tem now carrying an abnormal wartime load -Don't • let needless delays hold up messages on which piro• auction efficiency may, 't epend. . ii • OTHER `'WARTIME MEPH0HE merles" 13E. SuliE you have ntunbar ... cz Isol l e aceta? !.-• .� ANS'a'I;It liromptir When, the__ Q'bell rings. BE BRIEF. ' Clear •your lino or tbo; next call. 135E,'OFF-P"EAK •lioUtre for your Long Distance Calls. but, These things 500,000 look y fflepbone m_ Lsada'' ie•Y are aery,mportant. O i• et s. sottike • li Glebog 00q" 41, Bleeds • THE LU'CKNOW SENT INEL Published every Thursday.' morning at .L,ueknow, • OntSrio.. L. CAMPBELL THOMPSON - PUblisher and' Proprietor 'THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25th, 1943 :OTTAWA LETTER • By A: M. Nicholson, IMP. Since. this • letter .will appear' just ICI NLOUGH 1 LANGSIDE Messrs. Sam and Ez Stanley of The Langside Red Cross held their Sarnia' spentthe week -end here. social evening on Friday night at Mr. Milton . Walsh is confined t� the home of Mr, and Mrs. Jghn. Mc - his home with the mumps. Innes, with an. attendance of 78. Mrs. Margaret Pinnell spent last Gaines were enjoyed till 11 o'clock week with Mr, and Mrs. Donald when 26 games of bingo were en- McFarlan. joyed. , A special game with a spec - Ration ` books are being .sued ial prize was played for whieh 5c'. from the sohool.'this week by' our was charged This fee •amounted to teacher•, Miss Marian MacKay. - $3.00.• The cost •of all the gifts ''for Miss' Dorothy Pinnell' of Hespeler bingo was $2 77.: =The special 'game : spent the week -end at her home was won byDonald n old ' Donaldson: before gthe Red Cross drive starts,, here; . ' I Lunch was served by the hostess. I 'would like to urge the' readers The Presbyterian annual business During the business meeting it was' of this .column to : co-operate fully meeting'..was held on Monday after- •, decided'to have bingo and games on; vin achieving' the objective set for ,noon. Satisfactory and encouraging March 5th at the home of Mr and the. local ' branch°•n The' service performed by the In-, reports were given• from the differ- . Mrs. Ralph Caskinette: Mr. and Mrs, ent departments: I McInnes were tendered a.. vote •pf. Genova Of Red Cross through the Mr. Gordon Statters returned to thanks for 'their hospitality. Dona - Geneva 'Office has captured the im- p° y� • . agination of people the world over. his duties on the Bank •'of Montreal tions were received from• Mr: arid In 1864 sixteen nations agreed . to staff at St. John's,, Newfoundland, Mrs. Wilson Wall, .41.00; Mr. . and observe 'certain conventions with a after enjoying a holiday •.'with ,his Mrs. Farish Moffat : $2,00° The col - view to ameliorating the condition. father; Mr. Denzil .Statters.lection was $13°86. ; The meeting of the wounded and sick in' the war- I closed by singing the National An - ring nations inthe event; of war. • "'--"---- , them after whichdancing was en - 1 he .agreements were revised in 1929"Jane, come here", called the lady. toyed. and now Swiss . citizens are' looking after the interests of warring oat- ; of the hoarse Mr; Bert Moffat has purchased Lits in all the theatres of war, gi v- When the girl came into the room, Mr Tom. Hill's farm on .Concession ing assistance to prisoners, ,refugees the mistress pointed up to a cobweb 6, Kinloss: