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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1944-04-13, Page 2• T-Apoa: Two The Lucknow Sentinel, Lucknow, Ontario • SHE L.UCI<I�IOIV SENTINEL LUCKNOW, -ONTARIO. Established 1873 Published Each ,Thursday Morning Subscription Rate -- $2.00 A Year In Advanee To United States $2,50 ' Single Copies 5c • Member .of The C. W. N.'A.' CC. hompson,` o e °'�" ` • •• THURSDAY,. APRIL t 3th,• 1944 • EDITO.RIA.L ,4.: 'VICTORY . BONDS 4ND THE FARMER (By Jim Greenblatt), "Put Victory First_"• is s. the title of this • Week's article, and this is done without apology." It means the Sixth Victory Loa rx is in the off- ing, starts April 24: to be exact. So I'm using my column to lave a .little talk with the farm- ers • of Canada about the Loan. I know how. busy you are With the 'spring -seeding under way—, I know how difficult your work is with- out the help of 'your sons; and daughters .too, who left the farm ,for, the armed forces, and: :I realize' that you just haven't the time • to read ,the Victory Loan literature or attend thew ral- lies; so I 'thoxght if I summarizedthe reasons given' why . Victory Bonds are a ,such a good investment, and how ;their purchase will as- list in bringing victory nearer, •it might ,help you to decide just how many bonds you can: buy: I twee you'll"ake' a few moments_ off. to read. the facts• arid figures . I've collected to- gether for you. . In this. Sixth Victory Loan, Canadians are this, the matter of setting up reserves is the focal thing as sure as the sun sets in the west. You can do anything if you have cash reserves, and' what better way of building, 'upcash re- 'serves than by investing in thol Sixth Victory Loan: If a person gets the word "investing" firmly secured ..in his mind, there' just can't p atr Building . for the "future on the farm ' can run coincident with foresight, planning and hard - work but -building -up a, cash . reser-ve_means- saving. There' is no .better, surer way .of saving than through Canada's .Victory Loam.: The National War Finance Committee take the .. stand—and .atappe3ars most logical. that Victory Bonds;. despite anything to the con - trary - by evil or . subversive forces, are the safest investment with which to build • for the future a reserve for the improvement', . of the farm, for the betterment Of farm life, for the whole -future of farming in Canada.. It goes without saying if farmers buildup reserves now—by saving in the securest, man- ner possible= farm'. life tan be made more at- tractive, . for the hundreds of thousands of lads and . lassies • who 'will be shedding khaki and: blue some day . and taking up the most inde- penderitlife in: the world, that of farming. Everyone knows, . or should know, that. anada's Victory Bonds are mar-ketable; they can be borrowed against at a very low interest rate from' any chartered bank. Better still they accumulate if kept' until needed :If the seven' hundred thousand odd farms in Canada all have some Victory Bonds tucked away, •the whole 'agricultural industry. will, be . ; being asked to : subscribe a total of $1,200,000,000 • sounder for it. That's the message. ice help bring our- boys and girls ,back. -just, as soon as possible from such hells as ' Hong Kong :and Cassino: Doesn't "matter' if wtP re' white Collar guys or the fellow coming in from chores withn hN boot. It's our war and How the boys overseas. look for. 'mail -from home .3s a well 'established fact, But its- not a one-sided picture. ` In . Red : Shield Centres alone ' Canadian. troops have been provided as much as we dislike such things we're..in it with fifty-one million sheets of paper, envel manure o •p to .the finish: The -;tliine a -bout;. this Loan. that- • strikes me, and I'xn'snot any smarter or stupider than the average farmer, is that buying a' Vic-. tory Bond means . two• definite things, 1. in vesting in victory, 2. investing .in my own .Or your own future. It's `just that • simple. Tha • open . a'nd • postcards with, . which tiro, write chome. - Among those included in, the prisoner ex change.:!ast. fall 'were about twenty-five British and •Canadians'who were blinded • in• action, They had:- spent ,.from .one .to three :years in government, charged with • running this war German prison camps; but. their desolate lives for us, 'is not asking !IS "to,, "give our savings, 'were brightened by: Lord'Norinanby, who was. but "lend" them, and at a, fair rate' of interest •- • • taken 'prisoner at Dunkirk, and.Who,, - mniiedi- too. I was interested in a littlebooklet entitled "Let's Zook at the -Farm Front" Ti, it are some .ately , undertook to give lessons in, ' raille to those" doomed to, ..sightless ,lives. Another who' • has 'been of tremendous help to these boys figures from the Bureau of Statistics showing is 'Dr. David • Livingston Charters, a fellow 'living conditions of, Canadian, farm households prisoner and a former Liverpool eye specialist. in 1941 I'll just quote tem briefly in case Given the opportunity to return through "the • you haven't seen .them. 3 �.6% farm dwellings prisoner exchange, he decided to remain to were in need of repair; 86 percent -were heated help those not included m the exchange and by stoves; 12 rfCrcent were heated by furnaces; • those who would subsequently be taken 'pris- 20 percent have electric lighting; 7.3 percent oner.' Truly such men are friends in need: What had bathing facilities; 8 percent had flush toil. } the ,first impact of the realizationthey are ets; 6(1.7 percent radios; '43.7 percent had auto- blinded . must be to these(Men, is beyond com- mobiles and. 29.2 percent had telephones. \ prehension. The pricelessness of . sight is . best Obviously, to make the standard of living illustrated by the, fact that by this ' sense, $7 higher; and the necessity for this is seen after ' • percent of our, impressions are conveyed td one digests the above dry statistics, the farmer has got to lay lip some cash, or something just as secure ,as cash,to get himself or his ' children the things he has been denied 'all these years: Besides that it takes cash for re:. plenishment of equipment and of the soil. • Therefore savings. take on a new significance these days. Times have been good these last few years, due.to the war, or anything you like, that isn't a point, we want to argue about. Do you ' know . that agriculture* income; in Canada reached a new all-tir}ie peak in 1943, being estimated by reliable official sourcesas $1,390,000,000,, al- most twice as much as that of 1939, estimated at $722,000,0(10? This gives the farmer his chance, for the first time since about 1929, 'to institute for himself a savings programme. as his first line of defence against the uncer- tairities of the future, . and 'goodness knows the .agricultural industry can run into uncertainties. ,just about; as'quick as anything we .know of. Building , up a . sound farrn enterprise .doesn't come- about -by accident.- -Th ig cesaf ul and :tries, ;you. heart ablaut have been placing andi . in the brain., x Though laborious attempts have been made, to re -condition the crippled battle -cruiser. "Tirpitz" in Kaa Fiord, not .a • stroke of work has been , done for 16 months to repair the "Gneisenau", sister ship to the sunken "Schaifn- horst". She lies with her bows and gun tur- rets dismantled in the Polish. port of. Gdynia, which has replaced bomb -shattered Kiel as Germarry,'s main naval ease. • # * s „ • Civilian • bomb casualties in England for February were the highest inany month since May 1941. The total number of casualties for February was' 2,673 persons killed; missing and injured. • * '* *. One of the jobs waste paper does is the making of fibre ,shipping containers for blood plasma. Save it! • , * .* * s After observing the modern way of feed- ing a ' baby for the past seven 'months or ,so, it is- no tnystery to us why the first worn the little shaver said ' was "Goo" Durham Chroni::clew:,. 1.` Local 4 THURSDAY„ APRIL 13th, , 1944 anGeneral -3 Ruth Dahmer is visiting week in Goder-ich with Mr. Mrs. Bud Johnston. • Mrs. Jack Fisher of Toronto spent the Easter week -ad in and Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Aitchison of Wingham ,spent the week -end with relatives here. Mr. and Mrs..N: S. Calvert and Joyce of Paris are visiting here this week. Mr, and Mrs: ,Norinan Wilson of Hamilton::wereweek-ad visit;: tors here. ' I. Jessie Henderson and Helen MacDonald spent the week -end at their respective homes. Mr.. Alf Stewart and. family have . -moved to. Owen . Sound where Mr. Stewart` is employed. Miss Agnes Conley, 'employed in the pCNR depot at , Brampton, Spent the week -end at her home. this and Misses. 'Celia Wilson and Nor- rna Ritchie of Hespeler were Easter week -end visitors., here. Miss Mary, Struthers of Toxon- to was a. week -end visitor at the home of .Mrs. Robt. Struthers. ' W. `S: McLeod was off work last week ' due : to a back inj ury • which he suffered in lifting' a keg of nails• Donald Johnston, and Dick Eng- land' of Toronto spent the week end with :the ..former's parents; 1 Mr. Jack MacQuaig spent.• the holiday at his home. Andrew Thompson ° of Bow- manville was a week -end visitor" with his parents, Mr. and Mr.4. D. M. Thompson.' ' Miss Helen -Oreo "rr%Itend= ing Stratford Normal school •iy' spending the" holidag at her home here. ' The Annual - Meeting of ' the .Women's'Institute will pe, held 'in the Town Hall, Friday, April 14 at •2.30 p.m: Apron parade and contest. • . • Mr. and Mrs.; H. J. .Fensham and little daughter Linda visited over . the week -end with . MI's. Fensham's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Smith. Mr. and .Mrs Robert -McQuillan .. and Donald George and Mrs. Roy Finlayson and Elizabeth Ann of. • Hamilton Were week=end visitors with relatives in the community. Mrs: P. J. MacMillan has been. in . quite poor health but her • coridition• the first. of the week. was repotted to be somewhat im- • proved, Miss Louise Greer of Toronto and Miss Ruth' Mathews of Port, Hopewere week -end visitors with the forrner's parents, lir.. and Mrs; J.•. M. Greer: • Morris Pearlman who is atten- ding Dental „College in'Toronto Mr. and Mrs. P: M Johnston • . was an Easter visitor with his Misses Catherine Johnston and• man: Catherine Prest of •Toronto. ilei - Misses Marion :Farrell, .Kath versity spent the ,week -end' -here leen Gardner, Marion Kerslake, at "their respective homes. • Isabel . Nicholson ' and Marion Florence, all of Toronto, attended the Wall - Hackett wedding on Saturday. .• • Among those attending the On- tario • Educational . Association :convention. in .Toronto this week - are Misses Marion . MacDougaii, Alma Alton and Helen Thomp- son. .- Mr. and Mrs.6Robert Fisher and Mary of - Hamilton spent' . the Easter week -end with Mrs. D. Huston. Mary, who; will graduate this year at Hamilton Hospital. onis at • present holidays. :: • ,; parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben .Pearl-: John. Prest of the 'West 'Toronto branch of the .Bank'of. Montreal spent the week -end with' his par- ents, • Mr. and Mrs.. V. N. Prest. • Mr. .and Mrs, ,Mervirr Carter and ,farnily of Clandeboye were Good Friday -visitors with Jane and Adam Bowman. The South Kinloss Ladies Aid held a ' most successful bazaar in .the liegion building on Saturday afternoon. . Mrs. Georgina Robbins of New castle, Ontario, is an Easter week visitor with Rev..and Mrs. G. .G. Howse. , - . Alfred-.jnd- .Russell Armstrong, of .Humberstone spent the week- end` here with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Armstrong. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Alton and Douglas and Miss Fern 'Alton of Toronto are ,Easter visitors with Mrs. Jaynes Alton. . , Easter visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Burns were Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Burns' of 'Tor • onto .and Capt and Mrs. Stewart Burns of Detroit. Stewart is ay captain in the U. : S. Army Air Corps and is stationed at Strother " Field, Kansas. • Misses. B1ariche and ,foy Stew- art t Miss Jane Hornell of Toronto was an Easter visitor with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hor- nell. Miss Isobel Douglas of Kitch- ener is holidaying with her par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Doug- las. ' Miss Isobel Hamilton of Strat- ford spent Easter week -end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Hamilton. of .Toronto and Melvin' Stew- art of Montreal were Easter vis- itors at The Parsonage with thei r parents, Rev. and Mrs.: J. W. Stewart. Melvin is taking an R. C. A: F. pilot's' course at McGill University. ' Miss Christina Carrick of Tor- onto and Mrs. C. E. L. Partridgc�I of Pembroke are visiting thi week with the latter's sister-in- law, Mrs, T. Leishman.. Today (Thursday) little Johnny Leish- man • observes hir second birth- day. LOCAL DENTIST 'CONDUCTS CLINIC IN TEESWATER ` • Commencing last week Dr. Jas. Little, local dentist, is now con- ducting a school dental clinic each . Thursday from, 9 to 4.30 at the office of Dr. G. G. McKee - the office of' Dr. G. G. McKee, Teeswaterr for the benefit of Cul- ross Township pupils. Children from all ctiools who have signed agreement -forms of the Department " of health will be eligible to undergo dental et - amination and receive neeesiary areal-trnent74he cos will be born by each . sofiool sec,,t'ion less •. tI e 130 percent, grant,:of .the ijroviri- i'lay Made Big Hit The Ripley Dramatic Society's play "Silas Smidge from Turnip Ridge" was presented for two nights recently. and proved so popijlar that the second' night the crowd •could not be. accomo- dated. A third presentation is planned for the near future. The cast included: Mrs. Hamil- ton McKinnon, ' Mrs. Kenneth Mc- Kay, Frank McLay, Wilma Car- ter, Mrs. William Harris, J. A. McLeod, Bill Harris, Ruth • An- drews, Mrs, J. D. Bryce, Jack McDonald, Steve Irw n�.__'_Bay Walden and Ada Gawley, tial Departm t—ef Hea .