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THE LUCKNOW SENTI NEL
LUCKNOW, ONTARIO.
Established 1873
Published Each Thursday Morning
Subscription Rate $2.00 A Year In Advance
To United_ States $2.50' - Single Copies,: 5c
'NMernter of The C. W •N. 'A,
L. C.• Thompson, Publisher and Proprietor
• .4FHURSDAY,• APRIL, •29th; 1943
EDITORIAL
WE GO TABLOID
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With this issue The Sentinel goes _tabloid:-
+ We ' hope yon like 'it and believe you will,
although the first impresssion Jmay be that •
it is . a • "wee bit of a thing".
Actually the regular ' eit-page tabloid
THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL, LUCKNOW, ONTARIO
ESSENTIAL TO VICTORY
Ashfield $103,0:00;.; 'Li cknow $85,00,;; West
Wawanosh, $77,000.; Kinloss, $55,00().-"A total
of three hundred and twenty thousax�,d dollars'
•that residents of these four municipalities are
required to subscribe as their she -re •-:of.• Gan
ada's Fourh • Victpry.. Loan, ; which ., has " a min-
imum national .objective •of $1,100;000,000. •
Staggering sums°they seem, but 'staggering.
sums' are • required to finance Canada's v�ar
effort, and. 'which will, see our : own sons, bre- '
thers, husbands soon in action . carrying the
fight ''Into enemy, soil.
With this' in. mind it ' is fitting that the,
slogan of the'Fourth' Victory Loan 'should be
"Back The Attaek" When these boys go into,.
`action. -they ..must 'have, the tools of war—in.
unlimited' •quantities. Every dollar you , can •4
spare' and even more -is hottoo munch for then
,, to expect you to invest. They will :give 'their
lives if need be. Youe are only -asked to "Back
tiers
will permit ,us to give ' our. reaapproxi-
the 'q ttaek'' b invertin
' y - investing your mon& at a
: mately, ,seventy ' inches more. local news each
• week, 'than; previously: It does away ', with
the .readyprint section , and the Sentinel will
now be all home print.' . ' '
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The tabloid will be more fleuible, and per.-
mit us',.to make adjustments according to •the
volume aof advertising without cutting down
the news..content of the paper. This, no doubt
will be good .news to our staff of faithful rural
correspondents, -who --at :tunes have probably -
been justly provoked tofind their budget "but-
chered", as eve • tried ,-to crowd in, what news
we could in' a limited space,
This week The Sentinel contains twelve
pages, but under ordinary, advertising Cane
�ditions . the regular issue will consist of eight
pages.
For the advertiser the tabloid has the ad-
vantage
of permitting more exclusive positions
and.. eliminates the crowding together' of ' ad-
_ It -permits` the _spreading.' out of ;
more . "live . news',' .throughout the paper and ,
when our layout is finally decided upon, will
contain feature pages such as editorial wo-
men's and farm . news pages.'
The tabloid, you will find, 'much •more easy
to handle and read. It's five column width
and shorter length.column's,makes 'for. comfort
in `eadirig.. •
But *?•cost-impatbtentea ms ear7t u -la -- time,
is the fact that the tabloid enables .•us: to co-
operate . with Government orders to conserve
newsprint in every ;possible way, The tabloid
permits us to conserve' a considerable quantity
of newsprint, and atthe sane time give our
readers more local news :and feature articles,
weekly.
• • As . well . it will
• permit us to accept -new
subscribers including .boys' in the service." It,
-- ho�ivever•; ..does -riot-alter -our policy 1iieh yore
are now carrying out, of eliminating 'subscrib-
ers 'whose: subscription has fallen badly_in an
rears. -
' The - Sentinel comes to you this week in
its new 'spring dress,II and at. a . time which
-narks the second _.anniversary of , the taking
• --over -of the - paper by the ' present proprietor.
It is our aim to strive to constantly iinprove
•� The Sentinel. In this we need, and invite, the
co-operation of everyone in 'the community,. in
:contributing news items, oddities. and the
countless little human interest stories that we
would never hear of otherwise.
We invite your comments' about The Serer
tinel's new dress—in approval .or disapproval.
We think- that you will approve of it .more
each week. . C
' OU R' • COLUMN •
The Sentinel has' always -lacked, vve fee],
an. editorial page. Commencing with'this -issue
we introduce "our , column", for • what it is
worth.. ...
An editorial is one man's�_ .
4piiiion, with
which you may not necessarily agree. But it
:trust be unbiased and based `on fact. Oar ed=' '
itorial comment from time to tin may give rise •
to "Letters to the- Editor", either in approval
-or . disaproval: We 'hope, it does: This. is • 'pqur
column",but the . rest. of the .paper is . yolks
andwe welcome all contributions, barring any- `
thing libelous or defamatory, of course.
We do -not /expect to find the writing of
. this column an easy task andpur efforts may
at -first appear somewhat feeble. News items
happen and are recorded, but editorials require
thought, reading and, study in the. forining of
an opinion, whether it be right or wrong:-
With the Publisher acting in every cap-
•' acity from printer's devil to bookkeeper, our
.intentions to commence an editorial column
have always been -side-tracked because of lack
of, time. But. we have made'the break arid` we Boxing Day,..two .. filar ' holida- .
ho.,. . , pop y�y will no
good : rate -of interest-, •and -•as --a- post-war "nest •
• This war,in which the initiative at long
last is on: our side; is. already ,costing Canada
more every month than the . first World , War
cost in one year. No .wonder*at ' Canada now •
needs one billion, one hundred million dollars:
• More Canadians: have been buying bonds'
with each • issue, ' but of six .million : people
gainfully employed` in -Canada today,.more tha
one .hair of this number 'do not know what.
feels like to buy •a Victory Bond. -
The '"little fellow", who 'previously though
his $50.00 didn't matter, will be' an importan
factor in the success of the Fourth Loan; Can
ada needs riot . only•, your "spare" money; bu
'every dollar, you ran .scrape together. Bond
can be bought with ready ; cash' and on the in
•stallment plan.
•,• Malicious rumors concerning the negoti
*fifty of Victory Loan Bonds, are branded a
•. absolutely solutely false by Finance Minister Ileley.' Yo
can sell your Bonds at . any time without dif
ficulty or delay. There is 'always, a, ready znarke
,for Victory Loan Bonds.
In this respect Mr. Isley says:
"The Government of Canada noes not
8bj ect to people cashing their War Sav-
ings Certificates orselling their .Victory
Loan Bonds,_i .,_the_y snru .need --the
rnoney for . some .emergency,: such as
sickness: Faced with an 'emergency of
this kind, people realize how good it
is to have Vietory Loan Bonds and War
Savings Certificates toy fall back on. We
do -object .and, I believe, ;every thinking
Canadian objects, to people who sell
their bonds, or who have their eertifi- •
sates redeemed, simply to get -money
to spend on things_wl3,ic$_areoteab-
' • solutely essential to them. People, who•
do this are withdrawing the support
they.:_gaye-:to -the war effort when they
first bought the securities". • .
Victory bonds are backed by all the wealth
and resources •Of Canada. Apart from sound
businesspractice,' its your pattiiotic duty to
invest to the limit in the Fourth. Victory Loan,
and "keep your savings", in unifrirr'ri for the
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• By- the amount of cruising around town
some chaps do. in, their jalopies, you wouldn't
think 'there was any tire or gasoline shortage.
Four depth charges can be purchased with
$300' in Victory •B b lids. All four ' charges are
capable of sinking a U-boat costing in the
neighborhood • of $3,000,000. Can you think of
a better investment! '
That one pound of sugar won't make many
rhubarb • pier or sweeten much sauce, but it
alt. helps. Blue coupon No. 11 (Spare B) is
good until May 31st, to. purchase the sugar
."dividend" for use- with garden rhubarb.
don't mind. Last week elft we forecast p"red uflan-
nels"
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we
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nels" for • the Easter parade, but the paper
wasn't""any more than printed, when the mer-
cury started --=to climb. .The end of the week
was really springlike, although the temperature
dropped' on Sunday. •
. The next'holiday
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national • holiday will be Doth-
inion Tay; whih hereafter will be observed on
the first. Monday . in July. There are now
six national holiday's' in the Year—New
New` Year's,.
Good Friday, Dorninion • Day, Labor Day,
Thanksgiving' and Christmas, Victoria • Day,
Easter Monday, the King's Birthday and Re-
rxiembrance Day • are„no longer listed as official
holidays. The observance of Civic Holiday and
hope to make the editorial colmem a AvPOil , - t
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CHARGED WITH.
THEFT OF SEED
THURSDAY, APRT 29th, 1943
Taken into custody last .week
by Provincial Police, Caswell
Hackett will appear this week be-
fore Magistrate Walker in•. Wank4
erten, ch erged °withthe robbery
at Firilayson's. Store ' early , last
week.
The accussed pis alleged . to hay
disppsed , of some of the seed at
Kippen, and the suspicion of seed
merchants at Exeter.. vi'Ias, , er
aroused..• when they were ap-•
preached to buy seed, which^ they
were well aware web, practically
impossible to .secure: ''They .noti=
fied Huron County police and a
query was sent to Provincial Of'-
ficer 1VIcClevis to 'learn if there
was, :any :report of:'••seed being -
stolen iri:Br i e.' -This query was.
received before Provincial Officer':
1VIcCleyis_ was informed ofr.' the
Lucknow robbery, . as the theft
*as not discovered until abort
noon the following day.
Clark Finlayson estimates the
value of the `seed stolen, at about.
$375 00, part of' hich . has been
recovered. - ' .
Entrance Was made.by forcing
a basement window. The seed
was removed through the-; back;.
shed, and the entire job it is 'es
tirnated would occupy a ;couple
of hours time.'
T O" REORGANIZE
SKY HARBOR.
;The-iuron': County -Flying
Training 'School Limited,' which
has operated No. 12.E.F.T.S. (Sky
• Harbor) for the Commonwealth
Air' T,r�aining Plan is' to be reor-
ganized immediately at the re-
quest of the Department 'of De --
fence for Air, it has been an-
-'nounned-by--W'-L.."vWhyte---presi=
dent of the "company.
Mr. Whyte said that the pre-
ferred and common shares held'
by the ,shareholders in HuronCo.
are to be- redeemed immediately.
-A new agreement has been en-
tered in. -With the Department of •
Defence foie -Air whereby all prof-
its made by the :company since_
operations were'started in Oct- s
ober, 1940, would be held in trust
b-y_.the.--company for -the _•duratiore
Of the new' contract.. •It was fur-
ther stated that it was the new
policy of the department that all
common stocks" issued by the"'el-
ementary flying schools should
be' held; by flying clubs`•approved
by the minister of defence for
-air. •
Presbyterian Guild ..
The meeting on.Monda'y even-
ing was.in charge. of, the 1Vlissfen.-
ery' `committee with'. Mr. ;Tohn D.
Ross presiding. The meeting op.
ened by singing hymn 223.,Mi.
Ross read. the scripture reading.
and the Lord'§ prayer was repeat
ed •izz' ' enisen. 'The Bible ' study,
was taken by John Mowbray. -
The Catechism question No, .43
was taken by Mr. Ross. A dt �t aby
Helen and Bud'.Orr was fol
by the • topic by Gladys Mac-
Donald. Isabel Douglas gave • a
-reading and Mr. Jas. ,ittle play
ed a.. violin_ solo The meeting.
closed with. hymn 220 and 'prayer.
by Mr. Ross.
United Church Evg. Aux.
The Evening Auxiliary met at .;
the home of M. J. C. 1VIcNab
with " 17 present The #i'rieeting op
ened 'with, a call to worship and.
the hymn, •"Ride on, -ride on to . •
Victory" was slung followed by
the Lord's prayer. A .message Of
Easter was, read bya, Mrs.. B*k
Miss Kerry gave•a. report or :one
Mist-
of our missionaries Miss Henri
'etta Campbell of Timmins; ..con-'
cerning' her 'activities' and ter-
ritory which she serves. Mrs,
Ken Murdie read 'the, .' introduce
tion • to . the, new •study . book on
India,.. Miss • Eula Greer" gave a
reading on Gracie 1♦ ields_° Prim-
ary
:school books' from 1890. to
the present year were exhibited
and the change in the method of
teaching explained• 'by Mins Jean
MacMillan `which was very in-
teresting. • Meeting closed with
God save the King and prayer by
M_..rs• Taylor•.
W. M. S. Thankoffering
The . Ea st'e r •'Thankoffering
meeting of the W.M.S. of the. Un-
ited Church was held :on. Thurs-
day evening with' • ladies of the •
Presbyterian and Anglican
churches as invited guests. Mrs.
Gordon Taylor, president of the-
Eveningg-Auxi-liery; presided: Tfie
cripture passage was • read by
Mrs. W.. B. Anderson and Rev._
Stewart. led• in prayer, Mrs.
Breckles sang a solo; Mrs. Thos.'
-Burns gave an ` Easter ' reading;
Doris' Taylor; Margaret Rae and
Ruth Winterstein contributed a •
vocal n>,�mber:_ The guest speaker
was Rev. W. Vii. Strapp of . Bervie
who 'spoke of his work on Muni-
t'oulin Island.•'where he•spent four.
Years. Mrs. Rathwell •gave the of-
fertory. prayer. A pantoinime was
given by Doris Taylor, Jean Allia,
Ruth . ' Winterstein and •Shirley
Culbert, with:>IV.irs, Joynt as solo-
ist. Mrs. W. P. Reid tendered a
vote of thanks to the speaker. A.
social half hour followed.
The -Waterloo Flying
Club which moved to Sky Harbor,
at the beginning.of training op-
erations owns a'' large -black of
common stock in the Huron Co.
company and under reorganize=
tion a deal has been negotiated
whereby the,Kitchener and Wat-
erloo Club retains only th per
cent of the common , stocks.
Application already has been
made • to the secretary of state
far a charter for a Huron County
Flying Club and a company Meet-
- ing ot all ,shareholders will be
held shortly to organize this corn.
. Wiry,' 'Which will hold -49 per cent
of the common stock.
In the new arrangement,' Mi.
° Whyte said the Kitchener and
Waterloo club is' relinquishing 31°
per cent of its common stock to
the• Huron County' Flying Club-
v�hich will thne_come..ineto-49per
cent of the profits, so_ far Made
by the company. and now• held in
reserve.
This money, it was explained,
'Will be available for development
of post-war •civil aviation hi .Hur-
on County such as'the establish-
rhent of landing fields and it will
.assist in the rehabilitation of um. -
.on County airmen new in
in , Huron County is being con- ,
tatted as soon as possible, `Mr. •
Whyte said. The majority. already
have agreed to the new plan. The
preferred stock is being called
in. at once and is beixig..: paid for,
plus 5 per cent up to date of re-
demption, i
Sky Harbor • has° been a most
successful and prdittable under-
taking. The officers are, president
J."R. Douglas; secretar
y -treasurer
Ben Straughan; •directors I;•, J,. "......
-Bowman, B seTs; I J. Hue'ston.
Gerrie; - . L. Tuckey,. Exeter;,
Hugh Hill, Godericli and George
Feaggan, 'of God.ericb.
The department has taken over
the feeding of the student pilots, -.A,
fornierl dons. by private tom=
panies,..to • conform with It.C.
standards, A large A P.
ing � litiilt at g depot is be-
a central, point to.,
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