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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1944-09-28, Page 2PAGE TWO • THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL LUCKNOW, ONTARIO. , Established 1873 Published Each Thursday Morning Bubscription. Rate —, $2.00 A Year In Advance To United States $2.50 Single Copies 5c Member of The C. W. N. A. L. C. Thompson, Publisher and Proprietor ealmeer THURSI?AY, SEPTEMBER 28th, 1944. • 4 The L- ucku w Sentinel, Lu ow, Ontario MARS, .sEPI 128t1y 1944 EDITORIAL. A SHAMEFUL STATEMENT Attorney -General L. ;E. Blackwell has in= tgnated that :liquor stores and beverage rooms tivill most .likely remain .open on Victory Day. "To, close on such a day might invite distur- bances", Mr. Blackwell ' is quoted as saying. If the Attorney -General made, this state- ment in all sincerity, he may well hang his head in shame: If citizens of the Province of Ontario must , have the exhilarative products of the liquor stores and beverage rooms ''to - celebrate the end .of the most bloody conflict in history, we are little deserving of the ' vic- The "disturbances Mr. Blackwell so fears. will `certainly ' not be caused by thdse whose sons, husbands and brothers will be spared by the cease-fire order, nor by those whose loved ones have paid the supreme sacrifice, and ,who may well question if • the sacrifice has not been in twill, if there are those who will create disturbances if, for one day, they . are denied the beverages that would allow . them to turn this occasion of thankfulness and rejoicing into a carousal: . • s • s s The post office department has announced a five -cent rate on civilian airgraphs to all points where airgraph service operates for the armed forces. It isinteresting to note that these, `letters on film that travel by . air" are photographed on reels of microfilm,, and that 1,600 messages are .contained on a reel weigh- ing less than a quarter of a pound -31. ounces to be 'exact. These films are enlarged on ar- rival overseas, and . in case a reel is lost, a duplicate .can always be made. s With Wolves an increasing menace in Bruce peninsula, the suggestion is advanced that an organized wolf\ • hunt . be staged to .take the place of the -open season for deer' which is "out" this year. `) * s * .s How times change! The York City Council in Pennsylvania `has lifted the ban" on violin fiddling ..and tobacco smoking.. These ' two old statutes were recently unearthed forbidding such goings-on ,becaussesmoking was "wasting good eating tobacco"' and "fiddling debauched ' the morals of the youth''. s • s s• The statement by Major Conn gmythe, recently invalided home from overseas, to the effect that there are large numbers of un- necessary Canadian casualties due to . rein- forcements being green, inexperienced and poorly trained, is very disturbing tosay the least, and the Imoreso because the official re- ply has avoided making 1' a flat denial of the charge: Such a • charge as this recalls the Hong Bong affair, and in view of, the Government flouting the wishes ' of the majority of 'Can- adians, as • expressed by the plebiscite, these accusations cannot be, passed off lightly as mere propaganda: . Defense Minister Ralston' unfortunately doesn't enjoy "the confidence of the nation to the degree Which he should. R 0 s ar .� - The . wartime savings, of the small investor in Britain amounted to 512,000,000,000 as of the end of July. This great total, announced by the National Savings Committee, represents "small'' savings only and it is made up ' of money in - Certificates, ig� Savi�hgsA in Defence Bonds, and in iincreaseaegivcs- r: Office and Trustee Savings Banks FIFTEEN MILLION A DAY With Canada's 7th Victory Loan in the offing, the cost of financing the Dominion's' war effort will again°'be Spotlighted. To sus- tain the success which the Canadian troops are' now meeting on all battle fronfs, requires an undiminished flow of dollars—in fact requires an increased now, because the war is pres- ently "eating up more money." than' at any time in the past five: years. - Canada's money needs for _the fiscalyear for all purposes will • probably reach $6,500,- 000,000. That:figures out at more than 15 mil- lion dollars a day—which isn't small change in . any language The new loan has a minimum objective of one. billion, .three • hundred million dollars which is up a $100,000,000 over the .ob- jective of the last loan. . • • • -• s So as not to be caught napping when Vict- ory Day arrives, a number of municipalities are making plans for the 'celebration of this day -of -days. While it would be the height of folly to be :lulled into complacent, inactivity on the home front by talk of an early victory; yet it is important that details of the victory cele- bration be formulated, so that it may be some- thing more than an orgy of parades and bed- lam. In thisregard the Owen Sound Sun Times says: "Instead .o of breaking out in a rash of parades, confetti, frenzied• cheers and special newspaper editions when the war ends, our feelings should be 'such as will lead us to the churches to offer our humble, heartfelt thanks for our deliverance from the Evil One, and to present our prayers that we • may be granted - wisdom and . grace touse the heavy respon- s bilatie%,:that will be placed on us of making this- a better' world& c • s •• s The Goderich Signal -Star which . is only lukewarm to the matter of family allowances, prefers the abolition of the sales tax which bears heavily upon families which will benefit by the family allowance: This the Signal -Star rightly contends would do away with the cost of piping the • $200,000,01'from the taxpayers' pockets to Ottawa anden piping it out again under the family allowance plan_ And what's more such Government operations are never achieved with any., degree of economy. * s s. • • The cost of living has declined from 119 to • 118.9; which will explain to many people how - they happen to have so .much more money in their •pockets these days.—Chesley Enterprise. s s. s s • Blood . donations • at Red Cross clinics in Canada during 1913 totalled 529,635, or a ten- fold increase over the number of donations made in 1940. However in the first six, months of the present year, the 1943 total has been exceeded by more than 3,000 donations.. The difference: When a German airman bailed out near a big English city, he said: "Is this London?". But Puni:h remarks that British airmen who bail out near a big city in Germany ask: "Was this Berlin?" * s * s Don't let them down. Mailyour overseas Christmas parcels now. s * s * With baby bonuses, social services, unem- ployment insurance and an odd day's work now and then there are some who will be able to `retire" in the postwar 'era without their cust- omary, standard of living being seriously-' im- paired. • •. • # The Toronto Star, contends that the $200,000,000 passed around under the fainily allowance plan, vrill be, a business booster by increasing the amount of money in circulation. By that sort of reckoning, why not make the, allowance ten times as much and. give business a tenfold boost? Or better still, make the sky the limit. If there's no bottom to the Dominion Government's pot of, gold, then its the only business we know 'of that can continue to go reckoning or bankruptcy_ e?..7. Local and General Mr. and Mrs. Wm. J. Irwin I . Mrs. Frank Cole returned home spent the week -end in Orillia. on Saturday, after spending the past week in Bruce.., - Mrs. J. w. Henderson and Donald • were in London last * Mrs. D. T. L. MacKerroll re - week turned to her home in Toronto Mr. and Mrs. Newton James of after spending the summer at Windsor paid a last week. Miss Florence Maclntyre vis- ited at her home in Mount Forest last week. Mr,, Tracy Webster and sister Flora visited in ` Kitchener, Mt. Forest and Galt .last week. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Lattner • of Kitchener were week -end . guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jim .Carnegie:. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Emberlin•. and family plan to leave the end of the week for their new home in -Grimsby. - Mrs. Jack McKendrick return- ed after spending the past few weeks here with her parents, . Mr.. and Mrs. D. C, McMorran... Mrs. George Jardine 'returned 1 home from Wingham Hospital on Sunday somewhat improved in health. Mrs. George Joynt, who has peen a patient in Victoria Hos- pital, London, for several • weeks, returned to her home on Sunday., Toronto University students from this community who have resumed their ' studies ..include, Miss - Catherine Johnston, Morris Pearlman,. John . Mowbray and Lloyd Ackert. The boys I are studying .,dentistry, ..medicinne.._ax d. theministry respectively. brief visit here Bruce Beach. , • Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Woods and:'Teddy and Nancy of Guelph are visiting this week with Mr.. and Mrs. James R. Hackett of town and with Mrs. R. J. Woods at St. Helens.._ - Miss Rebecca Woods, 'who.°sold her residence to Mr. Chas Shad - dick, C:N.R. section foreman; left for Toronto Tuesday morning where she expects to take a pos- ition. Mrs- Alex Mowbray is consid- erably improved in health. She has been at her home . ' here for the past month after being con- fined to the hospital in London 'for several weeks. Mr. and Mrs_ F. H. `Maulden of Muskoka are visiting .her par- ents, Mr. and . Mrs. J. , R. Lane, and on Friday, accompanied by Mrs. Lane,, visited Mr. Hugh Lane Who has been' a patient in Wing - ham hospital for several weeks. Donald G. MacLean of Evan- ston, Ill.,• • is visiting with his uncle and aunt, Donald and Mary MacLean, in Ashfield: The first of October ' Donald commences, his ' second 'term ` at Northwestern University, Chicago, where he •is '. a student in electrical engineering. - HEROIC ACTION WAS DRAMATIZED ON RADIO On the . L -for -Lanky program over the CBC network on Sunday evening a vivid dramatization of the heroic action of Dave S T .. HELENS Mr. : and Mrs. ewton James of Windsor were recent guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Miller and Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Thom. Rally . Day was observed in the (Bud) Hornell and his crew, .m United Church ;on Sunday morn - sinking a German sub in the, tag with the superintendent, Mr. North -Atlantic, with one motor of Lorne Woods in charge. Miss their Lancaster bomber dead and with a wing in flpmes from 'flack from the 'submarine.. After the successful attack Bud set : the bomber dowp on a rough sea and. the crew of took to a dinghy, with accomodation for only four_ Three, of the eightfailed to sur- vive the ordeal. The entire crew was cited for their` valor and Dorothy Webb read . the story "Are you a • Christian"d Mrs. Andrew Gaunt one' on. "The Sec- ond Mile". Messrs. W. I. Miller, E. W. Rice and - Gordon Miller favored with a trio and the ad- dress was, given by Rev: J. A. Ward. The Sacrament of ' the Lord's oSupper will' be observed. in the Dave was posthumously awarded !United Church next Sunday at the Victoria Cross, becoming the !11 lam. Canadian airman to win this ! award so far in the present con= Members • of the Red Cross Ellet. Nursing Course had. charge of the 1providirig and. the serving of the lunch at the Blood'' Clinic held in Lucknow on Thursday. "Feeding the Sick" was the We are sorry to report -Miss subject at the Nur.ing Class held Faye McClenaghan to have brok- on Friday night. The lecture was - en a bone in her ankle, while at taken by Mrs. G. Stewart - and school one day last week. Mrs. T. F. Wilson demonstrated Miss' Olive Terriff has purcha' the setting up of a. tray and'the. ed Mrs. Ed Gaunt's house in the feeding of a helpless patient. This village- was practised by all the mem- bers present. -Bathing the patient Mr. and Mrs: 'Ira McLean and and bed;niaking was done under children of St Thomas visited i the supervision of Mrs. Stewart with his parents. Mr. and Mrs_ and Mrs. James Wilson_ . Mrs- J. J_ F. McLean. last w+iek- - A. Ward directed the making -of Rev: A. H. Wilson made a trip ' mustard plasters and, Mrs. T.- F. to . Simcee on Monday of this Wilson supervised . the bathing of week. WHITECHUR,CH • the, patient. Thisl week the class The W.M.S. of the Presbyterian will meet on Friday night with church met last Thursday after- Dr. W. V. Johnston ' as guest noon in the church with Mrs. Al- .speaker. . bert Walters, the first vice presi-1 The October meeting of the '.1"1"N" dent in the chair. Scripture les---.; Women's Institute will be held son was taken by Mrs. W. J. in the Community Hall on Thurs- Coulter; meditation on the Quiet day afternoon next:. Roll call, My Place by Miss Annie Kennedy; % donation for a quilting, cash do- nations for this will .be appreciat- , . .... ed. Subject, Origin of Red Cross, by Mrs. W. A. Miller. Program committee, Mrs. 11 Todd, Mrs. F. G. Todd_ Hostesses; Mrs. Harold Gaunt, Mrs. E. J. Thom. x Ner- Glad Tidings prayer by Mrs: Walters; readings on prayer by Mrs Albert McQuillin and Mrs. Cecil Falconer. During a season of prayer, Mrs: James Laidlaw, Mrs. C. Murray, Mrs. E. Well - wood, Mrs_ Jas. McInnes, "Mrs. • D. Kennedy,°Mrs_ E. Gaunt. Mrs I, , closed with prayer by on the Bible in China was taken Mrs_ A. waiters.