The Lucknow Sentinel, 1943-09-30, Page 2•
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THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL, -iLTJCKNOW, ONTARIO
THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL
LUCKNOW, orirrAam.
• Established 1873
• Published Eacho Thursday Morning
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L. C. Thompson, Publish.er and Proprietor
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30th, 1943 -
1TORIAL
A GREAT ACHIEVEMENT
POSTWAR !INSURANCE
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It didn't take a threat of rationing to start
millions of people buying Bibles. The fact is
that demand has been so great in the last •
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two years, despite. a huge increase in output,
the principal publishers have announced they.
will ration' the Book of pooks, beginning Oct-
ober lst, Retail outlets will be permitted to
buy on a quota basis of previous sales.'
• Who has been buying all the Bibles. That
• question is not, as importantwas, Who is doing
• all the increased. Bible reading? The answer
• . is ' that it is the men in uniform 'mainlY-:•---arid
• that • includes some of the hitherto hardest4'
' belled newspaper ,carrespOnclents who have
.. . , seen action and been in it.•Every.noW and then
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of all annual'reports which corne to our , :;.
a boy will write in from. Sicily or New 'Guinea
Office few are so interesting or so 'rent* with ; or Jodie or the great •-,garrthon that is England human interest as that of The Canadian Nat.; ' , ,
that it's no uncommon thing to see a lad sitting'
lorial Institute for the Blind The current report quietly in his bunk, or in the shade of a hut
marks the close Of the twenty-fifth year of the , or. tank or a plane, reading his Bible. And no
Institute's ierlite to the blind. people of Can- • one snickers any more, or .dares to call a Bible-
- oda, Before. the Instittte was .given a charter., reader a "sissy".
a quarter .of a century ago; largelyasa result The boys --and their loved ones at -home--
Who ,Cling to their Bibleg after the war, and to
what they have gained from readihg them, will
find themselves better prepared for tedatwar
problems. And the fruitage orwartime reliance
zesa. Now, as a result of intensive organization - on spiritual truths should be aburidant.--..Chris-
and the strenuous labours of Col, E. A. 'Baker, tian Science Monitor.
• 0.B.V4• Croix de Guerre; ita sightless -managing „ . • • * * *
An English paper reports A Ismail boy who
asked this 'e barrasing question .of his Sunday
School tea cr: "If we're :hem to help others,
most M the provision ; made for the economic: .. ' 1
;what are the others here for"•,
rehabilitation of the blind; and in the pre- • : -4. , • ip 0 i, , - •
. verition of blindness. The Ingtitute, as it stands
" • Only eighty-six days •untii Christmas—but
. , • today, is. a great Canadian achievement- hi. the ,
field of specialized :secial. service. It holds the ' ' ' Christmas mailing to the boys overseas must
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respect alike• of goVerriments and the public.' be completed within the' next thirty days, to
. • • 'This is- well, _for it . is upon the good will of ' assure delivery at the Yuletide seasen. :
' . the various goverrunental bodies and the public ' , - * * •* ' * '
That ik depends for the "support necessary for . The boys at the front have no idea the
its maintenanceit is irnpossible to estimate ' hardships We have to put uptwith at horne-
'of the interest created by the, return of a few
blinded/ soldiers from the battlefields of the
First World War, Cana,cla was extremely back-
wark in its handling of the problems of blind-
AireCtor, the. Institute ;stands In the front rank.
Canada occupies an enviable position a-
' • mongst the nations acknowledged to be fore.:
• --.'the==velee--of--t-he-l-nstitute to the blind -people •
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of the 'Dominion in dollars and cents, but some
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'Why. it is often necessary to call at eight or
ten places 'before we can get •a brick of ice-
cream.—Port Elgin Times. ., • ,
slight realization of their significance may be •
' • . grasped • by' this - sentence, fouhd in the fore-. " . 4," * .* 4:
Here's a thought for the day, culled from •
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"Creative imagination must be used in con-, Insect Invaders, by Anthony Standen. If Mr.
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sidering its facts •and figures, for from every • and" Mrs. House Fly get married in, April. by
one there goes out an invisible line' which August they maylook forward to 191,010,000,-
, • ends somewhere in, • the life of some man; • 000,000,000,000 descendants. ,_.
''• vrrord of, the ,annual report:
woman or child, or group of blind people, into ' * * '
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• . • whose spirit there has been born a new morale,' ' • • Recently heard a radio announcer rasing
• in whose hearts there has been created fresh
• , away about the merits of a headache remedy.
courage, new hope 'and inereased determina- , The voice was enough to give you one! Could
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-tion, whose fingers have learned new skills it be that this firm has' ga their merchandising
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and whose lives have been made richer and • down to the point of giving you the ache and
•• happier by the services of the Institute." -• the remedy all in one. • • '
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• A . SPELL OF WEATHER • • • The impprtance of blood plasm and- the
Memories can be awfully short, so far as • •' ufgency-cifthe need, Jewell.illustrated- by the
weather it concerned, but it seems to us The tett that the weekly objective has been steadily
. . ' • past twelve months ought to go down hv-the, . , raised 15y the Canadian Red Cross Society from
• . • • records as about the worst spell of weather • 1,200 per week in January of 1942 to a present.
you could imagine. It poured rain, all last fall, objective of 15,000 donations weekly. ,
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. .. it snowed' and "blowed" all winter long; this . ,. * * , • *
spring Jupiter Pluvius took up where he left . Doing business is 'no picnic for the small
• • eff last fall, and he's kept at it with regularity town merchant these days. War time Testric-
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. . • all summer. It's been a cool and "catchy" tions and the difficulty in securing mercIten-:
summer, t and basing his predictions on the .• dise have taken their toll in inany centres. In
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position of the wind when it crossed the "line"
last week, one weather prophet forecasts a
cool (maybe cold) fall—but dry at 'least,. he
.says.. In fact after 12 months of rain and snow,
a good rain would' help the 'ground for. fall
• plowing—or can you. followme? The ex7
planation for this is there's been so much rain
• the ground has "run together". Its like putty
end packing hard. *hewwe hope you've
Weathered . this weather "chatter.
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. . Individuals as well as nations mighte well I.
. ' . ponder these words by Winston Churehill:
"Italy is paying a terrible penalty for 'allowing
• • herself 'to be misled by false and. criminal-
, ., guides. How Much easier it is to join bad corn-.
panions than to shake them''.: ---Kitchener Re- '
cord. 1•
Many 'thousands of firms fall in "A" and,
'• "B" categories which are now subjct to the•
new labor "freezing" order, which prevents
• employers . from releasing Male'• erriploYees
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without; the written permission of a Selective-.
. '• Service Officer. •Similarly, empleyees must
. . first get permission from an S.S.O. before they ,
• may quit their job. Hon Humphrey Mitchell, ,
Minister of Labor, sayi:.\
"While every...effort '
will' be, made to avoid inip,osing b.ardsillip bn
any individuals, the need of preventing avoid-
•' •able labor turnover in industries important
to the war effort, is greker than ever and the
•' new r ' les are expected to give substantial as-
sistanc in that direction". it appears to be 'an,
order hat will discourage, by 'the inconVen-
•lence i it, "thine or `jurnping,the job" with-
out a very -good reason,
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the town of Southempton ,four business places
have . closed their doors ailice the '• outbreak of
hostilities. • • , •1
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Canada commences her fifth year of war
with an army of 450,000, men, compared with
a force of 4,500 four. years ago, In the same
period the navy has grown from 3,600 men
and 15 vessels to 58,000 men and more than
• 500 vessels, and the air force strength in man- .-
power has. increased from 4,000. to 200,000..
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• With . the •Dominion's industrial • plants
geared for peak production, industrial accidents
have increased' to an 'alarming degree and the
Industrial Accident Prevention 'Association has
redoubled its effort to curb the accident men -z
ace. In the past \year compensation :was paid
on 12;352 claims for injuries due to falls. A
• little more are and fewer needless risks, could
have prevented most Of these mishaps, ,over
half of which occurred onthe level.
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• The Hon. C. P. Howe has denied the rumor
that there has been any date set for "turning
On the heat", nor does the Government intend
to tell you at what degree of heat-yoU'rntist
keep your home this: winter. 'Needless to say
'it would be impossible to enforce such regu-
lationa', but, the, fuel' situation is serious and
it will be in Mr. and Mrs. Jehn- own
interest tP• see' that every effort is "made to
conserve fuel. The situation is: regarded as a
national emergency but so far Ottawa hag taken -
no other steps than to appeal to Canadians
to regard it as such and act aecordingly.
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Le-- Local and General
Misses - Mary Struthers and
Celia Wilson spent the. week -end
in Hamlion,
• Mr. arid Mrs. George Phillips
and Albert also Betty McDonald
attended the funeral of Charles
Carter of Wingham on Thursday.
• Frank4in Murdie, younger son
of rmr, and Mrs. K. C. Murdie
was quite sick for the past few
days with alsevere Rttack of ton-,
Oita • ,
Angus lVfacKenzie, who
was a recent visitor iOth hLs
niece, Mrs:, Wii.h.„Stirrison, h,O.s.
re-
turned to his hone' at Burnaby,
British Colurribia. •
(Dick) Treleaven of Lon-
don spent the week with Mrs.
M..A. and. Miss Gertrude Trelea-
ven; Dick has commenced his'
• second year, studies in medicine
at Western Unicersity: .
•TO Conduct Anniversary Services
Rev. R. C. Todd of Georgetown
and formerly of the village, will
conduct anniversary services in
the Lucknow United Church on
_Sunday, October 17th: Rally Day
service 'will be held this •Sunday,
at three Oclock. •, •
Held Family Gathering
A family gathering was held
at the home of Mr. and Mrs:
Joseph England on Sunday, sep-
ternber 26th. . Guests included
Mrs. • Nellie 'Ibbotson,„dasghter
Joye Lee and son Jack, orFlint,
Michigan; Mr. and Mrs: John
Swan and family of Bervie; Mr.
and Mrs. Jim England and family
of Lucknow; Mrs. :Harry Middle-
ton and son Lynn of Lucknow:
_Sciran. of St. , Helens;
Miss Marie Swan and, Mr. Leon-
• ard Phillips, Mi. and tMrs: Robt.
D'eyell , and granddaughter Jessie
Scott and Mrs.. Arde and son
Gordon, all of Wingham.•
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ard Phillips of Wingharn
spent the week -end at his home'
at Fordyce..
• Marie Swan- of Wingham and.
Helen McDonald • of •'St. Helens
spent ,Sunday with Mrs. George
Phillips. •, ••
Mrs: W. J. Little has 'returned
from a two weeks' visit. with Mrs.
A. G. Elliott at„,Strathroy:n..d.
with Mrs Stanley
at
• John prest Of•the..Bahk .of Mon, •
treal staff .at New Toronto is on .
holidays, ;and has been visiting . •
here With' his :parents, and
Mrsi.V;•N.•Prest.. 7 . • • -.'
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Special Communion Ohseevanee •
• Sunday next; October 3rd, has
been' set aside as "World Wide -
Communion; Sunday",. to be
served in all denominations of
the Christian Church.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Steward
spent the week -end in ,Toronto
with theirslaughter, Mrs. Charles
Henderson and Mr. Henderson.
They were,accornpanied by their
daughter, Mrs. H. Curning, •who
is spending this week in Toronto
with her sister.. •
Papers Appredated
In response to our request for
a few copies of a recent. issue of
The Sentinel, these were receiv-
ed with appreciation from Adam
Bowrnan, D. J. Kenny, Mrs.
Dudley; Mrs. BIM Roach, Josephl
Whitby and Mrs.,' Adain John -
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Had Name Wrong '
• We owe little Nancy McLean
an apology.:Last week' we in7• ,
trOduced her to Sentinelreaders.
as 'Sandra”. Nancy is the dau-
ghter of Mr. and 'Mrs. D. R. •
,McLean.' Mr. McLean is one of
the hew menthers of the High
School- teaching staff '
REPORTS- ON -SUCCESS_ __
OF COUNTY LIBRARY '
Sixty 'delegates attended the
semi-annual meeting of the Hur-
on County 'Library Association
in .Goderich' on Friday. Guest
speaker: was Miss R. Knowles,
children's librarian • in Sarnia
Public- Library. •
• miss Rose Aitken of Goderich,
..organizerlof the Huron County
Library Association reported on
the - growth of the 8rganization
since it was established two years
ago. •
• In the first six months of this
year 6,205 books have been, Or-
ctilated thrOugh the county to..
sixteen 'libraries 'in the Associa-
tion. These are at Dungannon,
St. Helens, Auburn, Blyth, Lon-
desbaro, Walton, Brussels, Ethel,
Seaforth, Bayfield, Varna, Bruce -
field, HenSall, Exeter, ,Kirkton
and Goderich.
December,.1941,1/fiso Aitken
stated each library received '16
books; this year'ih Septerhber the
number was 56 •and in December
this will be increased to 70. The
collection is growing and at pre-
sent there are 1;020 book in
circulation as compared with 224
in i941. A library is beifig iri-
stalled at No..12 Elementary Fly-
ing Training School at Sky Har -
bar and will join the Associa-
tion.
FARMS CHANGE HANDS
Arthur Roach, Cen-C'ession 4.
Ashfield towriShip, has sold his
• 100 -acre farm, 11/2 'miles West of
Dungannon, to Heber J. L. Eedy,
Mr. and grs7. Roach intend mo.\ -,-
nig to Listowel where they will
make their home. Their family
of two daughters, Mrs. El woryj •
Smith and lss Lorna Voach
both reside, its ListoWel.
Mr, John Foster, Coneession
Ashfield, has sold his 100-?rqe!
farm to Mr. Allan Schram.wh
obtains Possession next spring:
Another farm recently sold. •,va.,:
ithe '50 -acre farm of Isaac
at Ni1,Which was purckasedFy
George. Peagan. Mr, ,and Mrs.
David ,Cantwell whd were resi l-
ing onCit lave moved 'to Godf.r-
ich. Geor.ge keagan has rentr-I,
Ce9U14TY FARMERS—
A meeting of the- directors of
the Bruce `Gainnty- Federation of
Agriculture as held recently at
Walkerton'. The 'Membership'
drive On the collection basis of
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ne fifth of a mill was reviewed . •
and it was- estiinated that '90 per
-cent of the farmers ,in Druce Co.
have Signed- is the first -
County in theiprovince in which
a canvass for Membership in thia .
way has been carried out, an
'other 'Counties' are looking to
Bruce with considerable interest.
The president, Nelson *Ribey Of
Paisley resigned. to take on the
new job of educational secretary
and Farm Forum manager for
thecounty, and the Vice-presi-
dent, Mr. L. B.. Reid of Ripley
will be adting President for the
remainder of 'the yea?, •
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'The Federation 'plans an 'edu- --
cational program for the country
to .be.folloWed by suitable action
projects in the different contirntin7
ities. It is planned to enlarge. on
the number of Farm Forums, •and
to use, in addition, study groups -
which have proved so.successfui
in Simcoe county. This means the,
grouping together of two,,or More
school sections to meet ohce a '
month to study problems which
are common to allf The ' action
project suggested for this year
is. the, establishment of .a 'dental
clinic service for all school child-
ren in the county.
•• This 'meeting also •revised the
and Beef production com7
'n•littces 1.)f the .Federation. Dpnald
.Chrsties• i'VCITC" of • Saugeen, is
chairman of the Ileof Producers
secretary and
commitve. W.
also pNroivehmoelsiaoin
is
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Tr...0, •
stone,
nr the county. J.' P. John -
is chPirnian of. the Swine
committiT• and. Henry Lantz of
Carries township is secretary.
poy./d.or may catch a marr
pf, it, takes ,baking powder to
him, •;
tr,,.f:Irrn o ljamillon Clutton on
thr. B'u Watr highway north
Dunlop.
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