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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1944-05-04, Page 2t PAGE .TWO =41,44,:,; �� �R >+f..:an7sWcr..rs�nux smw.rwy,.en�.vx�w.: eMtmx_r et mt..,.... uutfp•o T, tar.•14,• M d'' . The Lucknow ..Sentinel, Lucknow,' Ontario ,THURSDAY, MAY 4th, 1944 THE LUCKN V1/ SENTINEL . LUCKNOW, ONTARIO. Established 1873 Published Each ,Thursday -.Morning 'Subscription Rate -- .$2.00 A . Year in Advance 'o United States $2:50 - Single Copies 5e Member of Tlie C. W. N. A. L. C. 'Thompson, . Publisher and. Proprietor THURSDAY, MAY 4th, 1944 EDLTO R.IAL,: A' TREMENDOUS TASK, WELL DONE ' , • • While occasionally there may .be cause for complaint about ..delays ,i1i 'overseas mail ser- vice; by 'and, large the public recognizes the tremendous task •of , the Postal Service and marvels that the mail gets through as it does. •-Currently the letter service from overseas to • the folks at home is : 'amazingly. fast, With air letters being received inside of a week or less.. And the public should. not overlook their own =Shortcomings. 'Improperly addressed let ters,'writing'which is "difficult.. to decipher and ' boxes which are poorly packedand tied, are a few things that place an extra burden on the postai, workers. •What's more,, it is a ,war of movement; . there ' are the ° dangers of ocean crossings; the • time ' taken for " these, voyages after convoys have assembled; the pressure on transportation facilities; the. overtaxing ,of space on ships and planes and adverse flying, cpnditions. Yet in spite' of hundreds of ,problems to • .be contended with the; Post Office Department delivered 31,500,000 letters in 1943 ,to Can- tadians overseas in addition to parcels and other' items.' • • . l The Postal; authorities recpgnize the im- portan`ce of getting the mail through,, as one of .the prime factors in sustaining the'moral of .ourfighting men They are J Ding a tremen • dons task well:, : ,• . '.. * * 's +x WASTE PAPER' OF VITAL • IMPORTANCE The Wartime Salvage Commission contin- ues to .stress the. urgent need of salvaging paper. This includes ' brown—wrapping `wrapping paper•, paper : bags, cardboard and ,corrugated paper, newspapers and damaged magazines and books. Recent issues of (magazines and undamaged books should preferably be turned in at your :Post Office, to provide reading material for The Forces. ' The use that is now being made of paper • salvage in the manufacture: of articles . used by the., men at the front is truly amazing. With- in the .past year no less than fifty. -one items which :were previously made of metal, are now manufactured, from waste paper. These va'�i from paper parachutes to temporary water' pipes. • On Friday' night of this, week The Clans- • men will conduct -a salvage I collection in the Village. Your co-operation is'requested in as- sembling every scrap of waste paper you can, ' boxed in cartons or tied securely. Of' course rags, metal, rubber' tires and inner tubes, and ' bottles are other items of value. Bones and grease should be disposed of at your butcher's. It has been proposed that in the rural areas, school' children undertake to assemble all the waste • paper they can collect. at the schoolhouse, from where. it can be conveniently delivered to the local depbl at. Johnston's' barn, or called forif requested. Entire proceeds of The .Clansmen's salvage sales •are used to send cigarettes 'overseas to the boys from Lucknow .arid.. the rural dis- trict served by. Lucknow' and Holyrood rural routes. 121 * * * * Speaking in the 'House Of .Commons last week, Group Capt. Denton Massey who .has returned from- overseas temporarily, • minced . no words In condemning the carnival spirit of the nation, After visting Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto he observed, "these days seem to be as giddy and as gilded'as those of 1929: He lashed out at the'Jetty. wrangling h the mouse and proposed ' that theslogan�P 'V First" 'rue rin rhe" C# irt�' . . a_ "ANOTHER BLOOD. CLINIi,C NEARS Lucknow and District eleventh Blood Donor Clinic' will be held next Wednesday morning. The appeal is made for more °donors and new- . donors' at this 'clinic. The need and importance of blood .plasma is we11 known tol. all, but ,always bears repeating as another clinic approaches. Locally these 'clinics have been held at' five-week intervals, but unless the; number • of donors can., be kept well .up around the one hundred mark each time it may be necessary to hold . future clinics at, longer intervals. The,.- Red Cross Mobile Clinic has its routes. mapped,. out and any ,,change.: would . occasions consnd erable inconvenience ,in rerouting' 'their. calls here. • But more.to tlie;point, .the local committee is -loath to have to adopt such a course, 'par- ticularly articularly , at , 'a time when the Second Front may momentarily be launched, placing a ter- rific strain on present plasma reserves Residents of this community- hold' , the answer; THEY DO' NOT FIGHT ALONE. The purchase of • Victory Bonds,' by no stretch:.of imagination can qualify us as 'par- ticipants in this struggle,° such as are those" Who are in Canadian battle' dress en the war fronts: in. Europe. There is little or no sacrifice here in Canadathat can be related 'even remotely to the hazardous• life or death, work in which - our boys are engaged overseas: . Yet the purchase of. Victory Bonds" is vital' to thewell-being of our men in battle for two reasons: ;First the 'cash .we thus provide main- tains ' the . flow of necessary 'material to the fighting forces. Secon ly,and .. n less im- portapce, the enthusiastic . support which Can-. adians at homegive to a Victory Loaninform the boys overseas better than any other method we have `at our command 'that.. the hearts and minds of the overwhelming.. majority of folks back :home are with them. IT woos TWO WAYS Newspapers ' devote -many columns,, a year to b'oo'sting home products and enterprise., They recognize, that. no community, no 'Province or country can .get very far. which doesn't receive the full support of the people that compose • it. Boosting local ,institutions is a job the week- ly paper cheerfully assumes., And often the paper steps, over the line of paid advertising and. goes out of its way to. give worthwhile free publicity to local business institutions. • It•is: disappointing then to. find that local institutionsandorganizations, do not appreciate such • help and 'consideration even to the extent of reciprocating:. when the opportunity pre- sents itself. This newspaper often runs across envelopes, letter heads and other printing pro- ducts that were printed in some outside print; ing plant whose solicitor 'spent a day or two here and paid for a few meals and a bed, but made no other, contribution to the good of the communiay, while the local priri ers.' patronize the merchant' that ordered the job.Out-of-town printing presents a• poor argument for ,com- munity boosting.—Listowel Banner. * * * * *. Have you bought all the bond~ you poss- ibly can? * • .* * * What matter if we have less to • live' on. for the time being, while our boys are fighting and dying to give:us, something to live for. i . * * * There was many a sightiof relief the'end of the week as .income tax forms were corn- pleted, and particularly so, ..if one.. had suf- ficient . funds in the'ol{ sock'to pay the as- sessment. "There should be no further_delay in mak- ing every Mail in uniform available for active service", said Premier George Drew in' address- ing the annual convention of the Canadian Legion, Ontario Command. Reinforcements are necessary for our fighting men overseas, he said, in 4 urging all Legion veterans to raise t a' "Pot ut ictory iheir voices in this matter in'a dofninion-wide Iocai and General (� Charlie Webste? has been con- fined to bed for the past ten days due to a rheumatic attack. Miss Margaret Taylor of Wing - ham -visited here for a few days last week. Miss Bertha . Stimson 'spent the week -end wraith- friends at, Walk- erton. . 'Mrs. Percy • Baker . of ,,,South-• arnpton spent the week -end with her sister, Mrs. ,James. Smith and Mr; Sinith: • Combining. business with plea_ sure' St. Peter's Women's Guild spent a most enjoyable. time; last. Wednesday at the home of Mrs., Levis for afternoon tea. Mr. -F. D. "MacLennan was a week -end visitor. -.with his daugh- ters, Mrs. Allan Bales of Rich: mond Hill and Mrs. Gordon. Hicks of Toronto. His grandson, Jimmie Hicks, who is at sea with the Canadian Navy has been promoted to the rank 9f 'lieuten- ant. , .. lt'Irs. ' E. N: Hodgins who has spent the winter in Hamilton re- turned to the Village on Satur- day. Mr. Burt '11oach returned to 8 work this week after •being off duty for three weeks -due to illi ness. Mr. C. E. McDonagh. of Zion spent the week -end in London at the home of Mr. and ,Mrs. 1J. C: Mc.Keniie. 'Mr. and Mrs.- Elmer Farrish and .son Bower of Gorrie ' and'. Mr. • Jack Farris"h' of Ashfield vis- ited last week in London With Mrs.' Farrish. Mrs. Margaret . Dudley spent two .weeks in Toronto at the 'home .,of her brother, Mr. Art • Haldenby and. with other rela- tives ' and friends. . , On . the "Success" products broadcast over CKNX, Mrs. Ste- wart Mullin , of town was one of the winners of a bottle of this company's liquid wax. • Noted Educationist Died In Honolulu In .a .. recent message to Mrs. Robt. Davidson the death of her brother, William . McCluskey in. Queen's, Hospital, Honolulu .was announced. His death came as a result of pneumonia which fol- lowed •a major 'operation. Born 74 years ago in Goderich TownshiP, he was the second eldest son of the late Joseph . Mc; er-usk'ey and - Heletr ‘8Macfrorrald McCluskey: He received his a u- -cation' at .Union ' School, . Goder c1 -i Township, and was a graduate of Goderich Collegiate Institute 'and Goderich. Model School. After 6 - ►years successful teaching, four: years as principal of Porter .krill school and 'two years as principal of Bayfield Public School he de- cided to continue his career as an educator in, distant ' lands and chose,p, as -his field, of activities the Hawaiian •Islands. Almost 50 years, ago he'.left his. native land Of Canada for the land of his adoption, reaching there !shortly before the Territory of Hawaii became annexed to the United States; He: commenced teaching near the town of Hilo .and did such good work in the ."native schools 'that his abilities as a real educator were soon recognized and he worked his way" to the top of the ladder, becoming in turn High School teacher and lecturer at' summer schools and also professor in the Teacher's College, University of Hawaii and supervisor : 8f . Education, which is equivalent . to deputy minister of education here. In '1912 he was married to` Esther Lyman, _daughter of Senator Frederick . S. Lyman (who was also a judge) and Isaldefla Cham- berlin Lyman, who survives with two sons, Robert 'and Donald Mc- Cluskey and two grandsons, Lau, rence Arthur, and . David Lyman McCluskey. After his .marriage he came to New York ' where he took a course in Columbia Univeristy. Hethen returned to Hawaii but was'not• long there, when he was requested to come east again. While '. in New . York at Columbia some of the ".'nen in charge of education' in Mecklexnburg Coun- ty, North Carolina, thought .they recognised in him just the per son- to-r'eviae their 'eciucation-a1 system and schools,- and he was accordingly located in Charlotte, North Carolina where ' he was given complete control pf this stupendouls task. He labored un- tiringly there fob. two years, '1913•. to 1915 and had the satisfactiori of seedng the results of his labors accomplished. -.h ods.•whiff t rth : Carry thilt-hc- made-his—last WEDDING BELLS POST—COULTER The Church -of S. Mary. Magda- lene, Toronto, was the setting on Monday, morning. ` for ` the mar=' Hage of Miss Jane Irene Coulter, daughter of Mr. Charles 'W. Coul- ter, 'Port Arthtr, . and the late, Mrs. • Coulter, . to Rev. Norman Macgregor, Post, son df Mrs. Post and the .late Harry H. Post . of Wellington. Rev. Father L. I. c eerie offiniTated.', i''' --- �... Given, in marriageby her .fath .er,, the bride wore . a graceful gown of. white lace over white. slipper, satin, with small .train. -Her finger-tip -veil 'was held 'with a Juliet cap trimmed with white velvet violets, and she carried red roses. Her • attendants were her sister, Miss Ilicia Coulter, frocked in petalblue faconne, and. Miss Elizabeth Sinclair of Port Arthur, in dusky rose. They., had little round • pleated hats'. of the •same•, material, .and carried nosegays of mixed flowers., The groomsman was Rev: B. I. Wood of Fort Atkinson, Wis:,«.and the ushers; Mr. Weiland Coulter, Mr. Donald Clark and Mr. Harold Matthews.. - After the wedding ,breakfast at the home of 'the bride's aunt, ,• Miss Irene E. Holmes, the ,puple left on a trip, and will live in Williamsport,.: Pa. ARE YOUR . Chicks pale, anaemic or weak? Use Red Blood Quickly Tablets. MacLennan's Feed and . Robertson Egg Grader, Lucknow. place of his birth' (he had visited • Canada twice before) - twenty- 'nine, years ago, when his friends and relatives . met him for . the fast, time. He returned in :1915 to. Hawaii where he continued to be interested in all educational work ,for the benefit of the Is- landers, whose interests he had very much at heart;. Nine years ago at the age of 65 he retired ; from. the .activities of his, pro- fessional career but continued ' ' his activities along other lines such as „prison ref..orm;..etc.. At..the--- .. time of his death he was 'a mem- ber and secretary • of Selective' Service .Board No. 4- and a mem,: ber . of the Boy Scouts Council of Honolulu. I m ' Of his two brothers andthree sister's only two. remain, Mrs. • .Robert•. Davidsorr - f-bunganrionand James McCluskey who has been with his sister here since last fall.. The' late Mrs. James W. Bell (Elizabeth) . of Goderich Township and the late Mrs. Jas. McBrien (Isabella A.) of Crystal City, Man., were sisters, . while Pte. J.' Arthur McCluskey, who gave his fife for his country in° -the-r `Wa ;v:}t ars;'3go• Ca'_st.:...- :