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Thie Lucknow Sentinel Lucknow, Ontario
THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL
LucKNow, ONTARIQ,
Established 103
Published, Each -Thursday Morning
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L. C. Thompson, Publisher and Proprietor
THURSDAY; 'JANUARY 6th; 1944
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• EDI.TO-RI•AL.
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StlESSORSA.,,=
. I ',The. Publisher took thihgS 'mighty easy
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aver" the'NeW'''irear's 'week -end,' when we drop.-
• ped einerything and .with,, the :family hied Co •
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.• Pa Tliom's farm . „tt ,couple of restful days .
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'.• which feattire'cl. SleePing, -.eating and the
•• sociability that comes frOm sitting, round the
.fireside, and - with your ieet.. up on it„ if you.
• • •wish... •.
• ,For the time being .work ,Was completely
forgotteri,., including the taskof preparin,g
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something for our .editorial column. As a re -
the SUm. total-. of this -Week's .effort was.
. „the clipping, of the opinions of •othets. i.• ,.
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"MORE THAN PARENTS OLD. -FASHIONED".
(Hanover. Post). . •'
• [How many :parents ''.toclaY.,. • whey remap•-•
• • .sti-ating, with- their -a•hildrpri. have -t-O-7-f•a,ce• the.
argumentthat they are "old-fashioned" or "out-
of -date", or belong to the past, or sentiments
amounting to, the samp,thing, but perhaps ex-
. .preised in' moremodern ,terms? 1 • ; .1 , . •
. There is too great .a tendency, dnd.always
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THMSDAY, JANUARIN, 1944
WHAT WOULD THEY...SUGGEST?'
TO forestall a:threatened.strike of railway-
men, the United. State army, On the order of
President. Roosevelt, ' has taken over the. entire
railway system of that country, The move, of
course, has not. escaped criticism. One journal
of high standing say.S. that "therehas. been no
clear, consistent or courageous policy in selling
• • wage disputes". There has been. a .,goocl;deal
, of this kind 61critieiSrn 'on both aides •of the
• b�uiidary 1in, but we .have- never yet seen
any definite statement 'frena the -critics aa'.to
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what a eleav,- consistent and, courageous;
•'. • in dealing •with.strikers would' be. In the Case,
• Of this railwa.y-,strike,•-what would' they. sug-
gest? -That, the trikers.should be put in jail
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the arrnyv and 'the job. of...operatin.g the •
• railways be' turned over to inexpenienced men?
Or' that.the ringleaders be 'taken out and shot,
as would becl, onein• Germany, pethaps in
• sia? Ot••that the strikers be granted what they
ask, thus giving csnco.uragernentto every. other.
.body of workers in • the country ill •Make. 'inn.- • .
iliar demands? It seems to us that tile ternedy°
• is ,the creation .of such a strong public opinion
against •any :stoppageof ess.ential work in. War-.
time that labor.agitators.woulel come up against
' • a solid wall of opposition to •any.suggestion of.
.a -strike.. Newspapers could do much to create
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public' opinion if they would•dii.ect.their
criticis.ms• to th.e light quarter andthsay' what
'they i•nerin instead of i.ndurging..in meaningless
inuhiblings .and 'grinnblings. Thete are ,proViS:
ions• -,lot: the settlementof workers' grievance•s
''withoul•the throwing down of tools, and awar-
One _strikeis nothing better. than .sabotage,
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(Goclerieh-Signal-Star)
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• sider that •restrictions and certain rtiles . of
etiquette and behavior were made, or 'become
the custom for some other reasonthan the
real one—protection. . . * * * * -..
— Granted 'that standards of good manners
have 'changed-, there is still a code which ladies
• should .he tinth inkable to ,any • person who has..
• ...any carehe . .fpr what tsoldiers', at the front'
are endueing. •• . • • •• .•
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nd ge tl eMen will Waser ve b 11-tIfhat tey • . •
can't realiZe. is that it is not their parents. 6
•• the discipline which .• is .01 -fashioned, but :the
• very, temptations and failure meet them,
• that arethemost old-fashioned of all. •
:A.letter to Dorothy Dix, the colurnnist, who
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has been 'giying'.pretty. sane advice • for a long
meonperonat problems, in-ThundrecIS of city
• nei,vsPaPers, •put •thiS. idea . pretty' plainly' _re-
• • • cently, when a worried mother 'wrote her. in the
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"I have a very attractive, daughter who has
• had a..good •envirOnment all her •life.. and de-
• votedparents,.. yet she.' does things and , has
• ideasthat distress her • father` and me 'very-
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' •• • "heresents obi every attempt to control
er •and calls' us 'old-fashioned' when we try
eep her from doing thingaof which we dis-
:. approVe,• such as frequenting the apartment:of,
• two .young men. .,
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"I. tell' her that. can. lead-. to .no. good •and
• • her answer is:, 'Oh,. hilother, can't • you coine.
i• •. up:to ate? • • . •
-\," hat can 1 do, about it?"• •
• We were very interested in the .ariswer:
• We ..quote: "You 'might tell your :daughter it
•-isn't. Virtue and decency:that are "61d:fashion-
• . is wrong -doing. • • ,
"TherhaSn't been a new -sin . invented
• since, the fruit -eating experience in the •giir.den
• of Eden, land it would • he.arnusing, if it Were
not • so tragic,..that'the • young .1) ) P I of y
thing that they are. the first. people in all the
history of the %vatic]; who ever strayed off.,thi•
• straight and narrow . •••
• "Everybody has always 1 veu , doing • it,
There isn't a 'frank' sex novel:1+ot •frorn th• i•
preSs whose, plot isn't. fore -shadowed in. the
Ten ComMandments, nor a ve that '.wasn't
old' ,when its warnings were 'thundered frons
Sinai. .•
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• "So..why the -youngsters think -themselves
.So much more. progressive and adventurous. and
sophisticated than their . elders because they
break the laws of God and man, and defy con-
ventions and covet their.'neighboes mates and
'have liaisons, is. hard to say. It is all old, stuff".
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• "Girls think they show iow . Ultra modern
• • they : are when. they. boast bout how Many
cocktails they can drink and bout getting lit
up like, a Christrnastree at a arty, but -there
is nothing' new in °a' drunkbn w man, Genera-
tion after generation has seen the poor, bleary-
eyed,• straggle -haired, 'frolisy creatures, stun -
ling along the streets muttering to themselves,
or lying in the gutter".
• In concluding, Dorothy Dix says: •
"Girls think they show how adventurous
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an •,high-spir\itecl they are when they throw
,th ir caps over • the 'windmill . arid have affairs
wi h; married ell and cYthPr men who can't
nr °Won'A Marry therh. But there is nothing
• "hiLtv in..iniiiiorality". •
DID.. BRAcK01 MEAN IT?•. 'tsearath Expositan.).±. , •
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-• • 'In 1.1.1• § recent PolitiCal address. at Hanriilton, • :.
Mr. Bradken.,. the new :leader of. the Progres-L •
sive Conservative party,• made •stalie references
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to the staleness of the reSenf. Liberal •
• • ernment at Ottawa: The :government, he aid,
'had been so; long in power unchallenidkl. tluit
it had. lost its vigor: and was iOaded idpWni. with
cominittrients, obligations . and outworn
tions Hite an. old ship .encrusted With barriacles". •
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• . If that is true, of cOtirse, the leader of the
•. governn-yen't 'Must be 'resPonsible,so:that it is.
natural ,IP Suppose that Mr. Bracken was dir-
•,ectingMr-King., his retharks against n --King. But we.
kvender if; he really Meant. what he said. •
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The present government, has been in. power
foreight years. In addition, Mr. King has had
- three terms. as Prime, Minister and each, time
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won the l position ,by the vote of the peqple'of
. • . Canada. In all, he has governed for seventeen
• and a half .years. And that.. is quite a span of
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On the, other hand, Mr, Bracken.himself,
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was Premier of .".4 Provincefor twenty ,cori-
. •• secutiyo.years, "a position he hel.d unchallenged
• , the end, and towarda. the close of, that long
▪ reign there .was every reason to believe 'that
:the .people of that Province thought hirn much
• bettor- fitted . to, hold the pOsition'..th.an he was
•when he ' first: took • office.
thetheory Mr.' Bracken' ph-Openly:idea at.
true,. that a Pi•emier• can beorne.
"6111.worn: and 'encrustod with barnacles"- after
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; eight yeni"s' :-terVice, what must. a ..Promier'S
contfit.tott lik n41,er `twenty••years!. Or',if it •
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y bIttriet• svolik! the .
• gr Cf;riservatiVe.. Oirty have elinsen, an
outworn ;lnil barnacle .eovered, ei.-Prm
eier 'as
new P.:4er 4(, bring then) Out of the wilder -
('.s? lioes office hay(' that deadenint.
g effi.c
• uponn,the:abillty or obarstetf.r 'men? Does !Vit..,
Kine
g's • rcord Rh( kw. j.t.? .
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Interest ire WU 1.14(' talifi Ifli8IrO f.1011 by the
• " Publie4ns been ia low ,•f•bb.. for gorilf• _
years. Part of that lack, of inlr•rpal. • hest in the
factn
that .our coucillors are voltintrity wets' it
One hesitates to criticize 0 man for n job (oro•
When •that jab' was done for nothing Nit "pay
a manto do the job •and its
• "The lr(borer is werthy" nf his 'hire" and vv.
• would strongly recornm(0i(' OW
end. that, (4 1101,
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r moves of the' 1944 council be to Het 1.4 raft
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paY-. for Meetings attended..-:-Paltrierston.01, •
•k server. • • •
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• Someone - has. defined a Cortimunist rye a
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person who . has given up hope 'of ;becoming
• a Capitahat.--Listowel 'Banner.
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To carry oti its .many wartime serviced the
.,_ 1944 Canadian -Red Criis§ campaign for, funds
will • be . held during 1.he 'first twovweeks of.
March, to coincide with that of . the .
aAiTacrican
ra,,,,attr,41.91,7444,9,4i4.....:.....ammoroioweas
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Loca,1 and General
Miss• Myrtle Webster returned
to Ottawa after spending the•
Christmas holidays .at her honte.
Flt. -Sgt. and Mrs., Al. Guse and
Douglas are visiting with h'er
parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. M. John-
ston. • . • ••
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Mrs..Harvey Treleaven is much
improved in health after. a
lengthy i]lness: ••
• Robert (Bud) McCartney. ,Of
Ajax 'Was'aho1idiy visitor kith
bis:'graticiparents,... Mr....and Mrs.
„R. T. 'Douglas. • •. ••
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Lloyd :Stetvatt of . Stratfota.
spent New.,•Year's with • his' Pat-•
ents, Mr: and Mts. Philip Ste -
watt • • '
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'Mrs, Norman Wilson of Hamil
ton .Ptesided at the 'organ..in the
• United church on Suday rnorn-
ing: Mi J. W. Joynt resilined
• her 'duties as choir leadc.,r*, 'after
an absence of sevi..;ral -weeks due -
an injury receivc.,d.in a• fall.
Mr. and .Mrs. S. C. RatMvell
returned to the 'Village the first
of, the week, and M -r. •RathWell
has. since' been ordered to bed by
'his' doatot. • Mt. and Mrs.Rath-
well attended the funeral of her
siker, ,in Barrie earl ili Decem-
ber, where they were both•Striek-.
en With' the 'flu. -They spent tho
holiday. season in Toronto with
Mr. and Mrs...Orm . Moffat, and
returned home Monday., although
neither One ..,Was feeling 'in, the
bestof health.
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• Jean Bushel/ of Hamiltbn was
a New Year's' guest:of Lois Hen-
derson,
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Mr. and t Mrs. Fred Price
Jack of -Goderich were Sun
visitora,With her parents, Mr: an V
• Mrs. Wm. Johnstpn. •
• Mrs. Frank Miller' has receivej.
a letter from her brother -Fred',
written in North Africa° upon his
•arrival the . Mediterraticohp---•
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• • Mr. arid .Mrs. -Horace Aitchison
of Wingliarn spent the week -end ••
• hexe and sang ,a duet. at
inotni.ng serVice Ithe AngliCan
Church:
.• 'Mrs.- James ,Smith, who spent' .
the. pastweek visiting in
Kitch-
enc'i' ,at the home of her daugh-
ter,:Mrs. H J..Fensham and -Mr.
Fensham, r6t 1,1 rne‘. d hem' the first
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of the:•week. with Mr. Sinith' wh,.)
Spent New Year's in Kitchener.,„.
Miss*Islay Campbell, Reg.N.,
spent last Thutsclay•Withher•Sis-
ter. Aucirey at. Frceport Sanitar•-•
• friend, . Miss Beryl Verner . • at
'day 'attended the wedding .of, her • •
of • Audrey's. birthday.;. and. ort.,Fri-.
non at Kitchcsner,.....on the occasiOn
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New Year's visitor at the .htinv. • .
of 'Mrs. Wm.„Mackenzie were
Tom MacKenzie .of the Canadian
Army; at•.Brantford, Mrs.. Tom. "
MacKenzie, and son • Sandy of.
.flarnilton, 'Flank • MacKenzie Of •
the R.q.AT.' at Centralia, John -
MacKenzie'of theR.C.A,*: at 'Jar--; • •
v -is -and .K-atherine of T.-oro-nto.'
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THE Ilii*.M13LER"
This is the. Sunday after..Xinas
and. as I .sit in front Ofa window
cver1ooking an•East' Coast ; sea
port. 1 see ice -laden • naval :.e -raft
coming • in; , others. pasi, Otit.
to. pursue 0the duties which; they
had. carried but while...the' rest
of us enjoyed' a . Christmas off
duty. . •
This. isbut a little-glirripse of
the. • '• constant. • -vigilance • which
must be maintained. at , all . times.:
It was touching to see-these:brave.
boys saying goodbye .fort • days
preVious-. to Christynas; knowing
they •would beaway from • their
loved ones fpr that day. of days.
If -you think..being., out 't� 'sea.
this weather: is any picnic, you
ought .to see these... ice -clad .ves
sels. 1 think the comfortS:' of ,a
haine would, look mighty good„
to the Men' who"man them.
'• goodly number were fort-
unate in getting away home for
Christmas but for' 'those who.
weroxitas forthriate it was a case
of hoping fot. the best. Atour
station 'we,- 'didn't fare so badlyEverydne prepared to make the
best of it and .entered info the
spirit of the .oceasion.
• A. very ,fine oldmilitarytra-.
• d ition is-rnuch. enjoyed • by the.
rnen, which is that the. senior pf-
livers become the servant's of the
lower ratikk, We are fortunate in
having 0 CO.W.fio is in excess of
.two h nd red pou dd's and Six. feet
Ilillin) when, it -•crone to disman-
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telling,the riirciiiirt rIcry he
was. able• 'to* cope with the situa- •
tion with . great .gustri.. • •
. • • For once we. allsat down to.
an' even startalthough. the can
• acities varied Or. reasons •whi3Olt.
do 'not require explanation. Any-
one didn't have what tur-
key he wanted had no one else.
to blame but' hiinself. The horn •
of plenty'sure • rested . on the
tables' fOr once: Grapes, candies'
and oranges k added lustre tothe.
*already groaning tables. •
DOn't Wait LIMO l'in'pe441
Otr
When 1 (II 1.• this rriertiil,sliore, •
A rid mono round the 4.10.111-• no
rrior•(',.
)on'!, Wt`tlf,. „
1 sriii,y•linve struck 1,e11er,job1
Don't go awl Ioiy a War, b.oh(jitof,
leoi• which find .11 bind to
mope 00 titiott • ttod iIII
!dole,' • • .
, 1' Miry hI bettei off 'him yoill
Dew, go arid awl. was anotijt
Or tiny that'll
1 f yai ill,11/(1*.P.1111 like. that. •to
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• Our newpadre who is a genial'
soul and full of life and 1 should •
say a 'talented musician both 1.7P-
cal and. -instrumental, led us iri
a sing -song. Having satisfied .the...
pangs of hunger, the, spirit of
music made us forget our.
lonli-
ness for a .while.
,, During the course cif the .after-,
noon rnost of the boys on thesta -
•tion :found their way to some kind
friend's home. Maritin-iers. I must
say are ideal hOsts and when ono•
thinks of ,the many servicemol'i.'
in the region they' do •a Nvondet"ful -
job. • • •
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No doubt many others were in
the..same position as 1 of bei,ng
,;first time and thus the day hai '.
aWay' from loved 'ones for. thfisior
a peculiar significance. But deep
in, the heart of each is. a 'fend
hope that this' disruption of our:
'way •of life -may end and that the
Christmas „of tomorrow may take
on a'new meaning of Peace and
bond • liVi-11 Among Men. . •
'Please hand it out before I'm '
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dead; - . .
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If you havereses-bless your sou,
Pletine pin one on my button.; .
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While i'm alive and .well today—
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-.Don't 'wait • till 11 have gone a-
: • way I •
Life ain't very Nay to raen..
W114.11 we tfi't born, our mothers
•tet • the complimenta and the" .'
flowera. When •we are marriel. •
our brides get the presents. When
mve die, our WidoWs' get the instil--
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