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THE LU KNOW SENTINEL
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Friday, .Saturday
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'?MARJORIE WEAVER
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cw R tE . CHAN S
MURDER , • CRUISE
A murder' mystery Solved :by
. • the• famous 'Charlie -Chart.
Also "Ray Witley Musical"
"Catoon".•u r . r • "
ort" "News
liatinee- -Sat.-afternoon 2:30 pm
Monday,.. Tuesday, Wednesday
MARCH 24, 25i. 26..
GREER GARSON1
LAURENCE +„DLIVIER
-EDNA MAE'.' OLIVER
:`Prideand Pre judice' •
t a e--
,-A •drama;iilaa tollof.`--the—J n
'ueten .novel. `' .
Alza . "_Christmas Under., ..Fire”
(Narrated by Quentin Reye "
nolds)
Veterans 'of, Present WO
To Be Recognized as ExService Men
The term lex-service men" will'
henceforth include those who have
served with -the. active'service forces
of - Canada' . du'ring' the present. ;war
as well as., veterans' of the ;war of
1914-•18 Emphasis i placed on :this'
fact. in an .instruction from .'the De
partment' of National Defence • to
those din charge of government works
under the supervision of the Depart_
ment suggesting that other.things
being equal uneniployied, ex -service
then receive.`preference . on these
works. ,. e. .
Evacuee Hears M'other's Voice,
Turns Somersault, Breaks •:Arai,
Lewis and Mary Cree, who were.
evacuated. from England Wast sum-,
mer, and'are making their with•
their aunt near'Wiarton, had:a thrill-
ing experience' recently. They. heard,
their', mother speak over a BBC broad-
cast and young Lewis was.s9 'ovei-
joyed that' be .later• • took to sonie-
saulting when' he fell and .broke, his
arm:, Mary. was differently. affected:
and ib„oke into a "flood of . tears' et • the
sound' of`. her mother'sv_'oice,.. :. ___ _
• Flying' Officer Donald MacKay•.' -;
It is now • "Flying' Officer" Donald'
MacKay,, R.G.A.F. This young man
son of Mr.- and Mrs. John MacKay of
. Kintail earned his 'commission the
hard way. He began flying . three
years ago, taking . a course. 'at Lon-
• • don, paying for it out of his, own
pocket with money that.he earned
between lessons. Shortly !before the
war he: joined the R:C.A:F•. and ,,be-
-came an instructor with .the rank of
1 l u }
now stationed at a Western service
flying' school.—ignal_Star ..
•
The vanquished. Italians are being
taken prisoners by the thousands,
rwhich reminds the editor' of one of
our ertchanges that' if this sort •of
thing keeps up the Dagoes will• ; be.
.pretty nearly as much of a nuisance
as when they Were our allies during
the last war. '
cCh
.-ey�-
�
atter.
Paisley Sunocos find tliexnselves in
the semi=final series for the O. It A.
;Intermediate. 'silverware after one.
prelimi'nary..:playdawn :series '-with
Owen Sound which went three games.
The Sunoeos ousted the Owen .Soun-
'dela 4 to, ..0'in Walkerton last Thurar
d!aynight in, a sparkling exhibition.
• Paisley took the first -game 7 to 5
in Owen Sound and '"then .dropped an
indifferent •10 -minute • overtime tussle
on their home ice'.6 to bi 'The . Sun::
oeos were aback in top rami for the
final game in 'Walkerton.
The Shrioeos; have been spasmodi-
cally good . and. Abad 'in the' playoffs
so far and Rose MacKenzie :pf the
Paisley Advocate, undertakes to ac
count- for ,the cause of these hot and
cold flushes as follows: "First, .'and'
foremost: utter failure to keep a sus,
tained barrage of backchecking (you
just ,. can't expect to Flet a pair of
livings and a centre -man of the `class
of • those shot out by . the Wreckers
run wild without the house caving
in on top ofyou):°Second:' you can't
weld .a player as smart and capable
as, big 'Dick Craig, into your mach
.fine,_,outasadlya Missing-hie.apower>
fail drive When he's not in 'the fight;
Third: there's been absolutely no.'co=
hesion iii the :team's •power-playin
the' .past two games". •'
,
In that 6' to 5 defeat,, MacKenzie
claims the visitors ran, wild due larg-
'e y eta" faiilare of'the,first line to leek-
cheek. ' "When the Fenton;. B. Book
and •Thompson :trio were out .there
-the . Wreckers-_found--the_going much
"bar er, for that outfit back -checked.
valiantly ail evening.'_'., -lie: said
' And: ' here's - a paragraph, from
"Chubby's" •!comment ' on the first
game in,Owen Sound: . "E. ,Book;
hardest -worker . for the.' Oilers' : all-
night,
ll
night, reaped his 'reward, for .persis-
tence �vv,hen he., galloped on to the' ice
after serving ' a • penalty, beelin d
Straight in on.top of Hyslop • and ran-,
ped Craig's -pass into the lower corn•
-
: In any event :,Paisley is now one
of five teams remaining in therace
'for . possession" -of ' that old' ' battered
mug,' symbolical of tops in Ontario
`Intermediate -"B", hockey. Frankly,
we don't think' they can qualify far
that : distinction, but: the team that
puts them out, won't find the Sun-
ocos •a pushover.
Seaforth and Paris are paired up.
together, while Sutton, and Fer,gus are
battling it.out, Paisley will meet the
winner of. either one 'of these rounds,
most likely . either&, Fergus or Sutton:
Fergus secured aaione 'goal dead in
Sutton- .on-' Friday:.
Babe . and George Book who. are
playing, with Paisley, are 'anxious' to
get the 'next •series underway, for
Spring's approaching' and they're get-
ting ""itchy" to' get back - West and
get machinery in readiness for spring
seeding.
Thein presence on the Paisley team
Young four-year-old had• just been
informedof the \arrival of a second
baby sister. He questioned Daddy; -
Daddy, does God know every-
thing ?"
• "Why, yes, son".
"Then why didn't He know I want-
ed a brother?" .. • 1
"Maybe He did but He was opt of
boys". •
"Yes—but if He knew everything
He, might have known I'd have wait=
ed!" was the disconsolate arguinient
which floored' the young father.
,Answers• to this week's Brain -Teasers
a
1 It is a contraction of Brno (Czech-
oslovakia), and' Enfield, .where it was
originally • made in England.
2 • There is no Swiss language, The
»following languages are.. officially rec.
ognized in Switzerland—French, Ital-
ion, German and Romansch.,
3 Greenock, in Scotland `(feended'in
1711). • • •
4 (a) England; (b) U. 'S. A.; (c)
Australia; (d) Scotland; (e) Eng-
land; (f) England and Normandy.
5 Irish wolfhound. • +.
Lachryntase.
a.lwM.,+rt9 w
has created additional interest for
loco d players, who have no-
thing • do, in the hockey line
now,low' the fortune •of other
tea •
I fans an
better tcl
than fol
m3. ,
'And' witlh • hockey completely "off
the map" here now, skaters have the
arena" to themselves' and Rink Man-
ager McCoy, has been successful in
in
.sustaining interest in skating, to such
a • degree, that weather .••permitting,
lie's had the arena in operation six
nights a week for the past'two weeks
and has been "picking .up"- a neat
bit of change•„•as a •resu�t, Receipts,
from skating for the ' week of March
3rd to 8th 'were the highest of i the
winter. . „ '
You'd hardly consider •flat ,feet to
be news, but' when Hank Greenberg's
got 'em they, get a ,,splash headline
across the front . page of the Detroit'
Times.
For Hank, the slugging Tiger hall
player ds. now ruled as "unfit for the
army” and has signed • a reported
$50,000, contract with the Tigers,- a
raise of $5,000 over' last -year's sal=
ary.. •
Hank's. feet ,placed "him in cate-
gory 1B, which is, not 'a serious de-
fect, but under the present draft
board regulations it` is mostly men
of 1A classification that are being
called for a .year . in the American
Army:
Xnias Holidays In Marcb
Carman Farrier , of West .Wawa -
nos r, who taught school during the
Christmas' holidays se that he might
later take his 80-dayl6 oil military
service, had his'holidays last week,
'as he is mot ii l 'being called' for
training this spring. -
IN THE GRIPO'F'
ERUN .MOSCOW •
Steadily, ruthlessly, the oppressors
of 'Berlin and (Moscow are grinding
the life out of Poland. Its industrial
proviinees, nearest Germany:_have-
been, incorporated in. the Reich. East
of the Bug, the Riiseian Ogpu holds
away forcing )thousands of Poles from
their homes to the wastes- of CentralSiberia.•Betweenn the eastern. end
western. provinces lies a . sort :of ,;no
Man's land,: ironically known as the
'GGouvernement General, where theor-
etically the Poles atilt have some•
rights left tbutFin•reality the.Gestapo
rules`. -.". h •
11 n p d
the are incur orate. in'the 'Ger-
'nan ,Reich .(Peznania, Pennine, "'Sil-
esia, Lodz, Kansa; Plock and .Hujawy
provinces)' - according to • advices. re=
ceiyed .by the Polish. Government in
London, there is not a city or email
town where there Have not been mass
executions of Poles, Mainly drawn
from the intellectual classes•. Recent
detailed estimates confirm .that in the
town of Bydgoszez alone, over '10,000
Poles
Poles have been murdered, many of
them women and children. In the rest
of Pomorze the number pf ..:,people
murdered exceeds a•further.ten thous-
and and ,in Poznania province the
number ' is some 15,000. The total
umber. f o xnurd_er the
Gestapo throughout the German ; oe
cupied area is given as over :70,000.
At- ' Warsaw- fii the G'nuvernement
General executions 'were . formerly
carried -but :in va dous, Tants ,+of the
city, for instance • in the Sejni gar-
dejns in .the .daytiinile and, in full view.
of - the people. Today the chief place
of execution . for Warsaw and the' en
virons'is the locality-of,,Palmira, out--
side the city. In this plaee, there- are
nearly, a' score. of collective graves of
people s, o muid'ered; lYh-•wtllch•-pro17-
ablysome two thousand•pepple, main-
ly from :intellectual circles, are 'bur=
led. 'There are always several trencl►-
es,: dug by ., Jewish enforced: labor,
ers. Among those shot at Palmira was
the leader 'of the.Polish Socialists.
Through a : Pplish couple' who suc-
ceeded in escaping from Soviet Rus-
sia" by the Eastern.route" uthentic
details:. confirming all that :has been
written about the nature of the.Sov-
iel deportations from Eastern • Pol-
and, have recently•come' to hand. The
couple fled before the German, invas-
ion in South-Wetern Poland, arid at
the end.of 19a9 reached. Stanislawow.
111,the . area ,controlled by Soviet Rus-
sia, where they reanained until spring.
•Ifere the Soviet .authorities 'unexpect-
edly ordered the- registration of all
who were not permanent inhabitants.
The man was arrested,. and deported
to Dniepropetrovsk, while • his' wife
was carried off' to the' interior of
Russia.: At Orenburg, on • the' Samara -
Tashkent line, she happened to find_
aagroup of Poles who were also 'be-
ing deported, and travelled with them.
The Poles. were transported on open
trucks, the last. truck being occupied•
:by. th'e G. P. U:, guards armedl'with
automatic rifles. There was a- special
wagon for. the' train commandant. '&
a separate covered truck for mothers
with infants at the breast. '
On the .journey .a •g eat 'number
of the .deportees - died. The destine-
tion, which was not known in ad=
vance, was Bekpak-Dala, , situated in
the-+f-ar,.au AHo„ng,�Steppe"-Frim
waiting for'the •next batch of prison -
Perovsk all the deportees, including
women and olildren,i were -driven on
foot to Asche-Kul;; and on 'arrival
they were told to "establish settle-
ments" along the river Chad. Owing
to the exertion's , of Polish doctors
with • the party, who had carried hypo-
derntic.syringes - and serums with
them, all •incipient 'outbreak of ty-
phoid among the, deportees was check-
ed. The shortage of food and• water
during the summer heat. caused 'much
illness . and mortality: especially a-
mong the' children. ,
Fortunately, the manobtained per-
mission to leave the country for him-
self • and his wife, and found +mean's
of meeting the 'cost of travel. But the
journey from No'vbsi'birsk was a con-
tinual torture. At station after ata,
tion they found Polishchildren plead-
ing for bread. The nightmare ended'
only when they reached K.harbin: '.
South Afrita is turning out• '60
m.p.h. ' armoured ears, with ; gun tor
-
rets and bullet-proof tractor grip•
tires,' in,sufieient numbers to su15ply
her own armies, • and also to • contrib-
ute to the equipment of the British
forces. in. North Africa.. -
:perking of radio advertising\ the
other day, the Orangeville Banner
asks what would happen the news-
papers should they attempt to •carry
on their business on the Sabbath. It's
a fair question and should receive a
fair answer.
Mother: "What are You
pantry, Tommy?"
, Tommy: • "Fighting
mother";
doing in the
:temptation,
THE
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P1L ighAY, -MARCH 2Oth,, 1941
The life of
inston . 'Churchill:
s
\When Lord Randolph Churchill . fell'
in love at first, sight ;with a bbeaut
fur American girl,'::arida ;following a
wihirtIvind cottatship,;, niariied her
early;,.in '1874, it wasn't top much toy
expect•that sdch a bold, brilliant -and
an'usual Pair air would ' roduce' a brill:-
. P
!ant 'son. -' .
*;.Lord' Randolph' was the third son
of the:seventh Duke of Marlborough,
and a Conservative peer-politician:of
great renown in ' his. day; ' Lady
Churchill was the 'former Miss Jen-
nie Jerome; whose -beauty, dash,- viv-
acity and intelligence, took English'
society by storm. '
They did; not disappoint; for Win-
ston Leonard Spencer•' Churchill was
born on ' November 30th, the same
year. • • •
"Bselafitii'- But'' i'fecdet`a"as'
First' sent 'to a fashionable child-
ren's school,' young-Winston_fe11 se
iously ill, and was transferied to a
private school• .`at Brighton kept. by
two ladies.
It cannot • be said • that ' young.
Ch irchilli 'distinguished himself lri=
deed, he himself has' since confessed
that he was "backward but ' pre-
_coeious"... At_.. this time,_' his lather
was perhaps; the host -talked -of [man,
c
in tile- British•,Isles, and a s hoolmate
writing; some.:years later; said' that
Winston,. "'lever '' singularly.modest,
became a %trifle more cocksure": It is'
certainly true. that even in. those. early
years,- young Churchill . was erctreme-
ly ambitious. ' • ,
: Bottom.of the •Class
, From Heighten, •, Winston .gravi'ta
ted to Harrow Where, the boys being
placed. in alphabetical order, he' (his
proper dame -being Spencer -Church-
ill) .was- placed at.the foot of the low-
est 'class in the school.. •
' It „was at Iiiarrgw that the pat-
tern of his life began to take shape..
He was, very proud of his 1500 toy
soldiers,' and one day asked his father
to review ,his "standing' .army". Lord
Randolph was Jai impressed with Win-
ston's . interest and enthusiasm that
•from then • on -,his ' education. followed
military' lines. ' •
The . preliminary-'. examination for,
the Army was -taken at, Harrow. And
it will' be seen • that the Churchill luck,
so 'often apparent in his career, play-
ed its •part 'then:
7t was common knowledge that t the
students would he asked to' draw from
memory
'
memory the,'map of a country, but,
the name was 'asecret until •the act-
ual examination, The The 'night before,
young Churchill prat the names of all
the countries in the world into a' hat
and drew one. It was New Zealand
and he studied the map of that'coun-
try intensively. Next day, the Fates
were kind! One of the questions'ask-
ed was: "Draw. a »lap of New . Zeal-
and from ,memory."
During this Egyptian campaign, a
friend and fellow• officer �suatained.
a .gaping wound' which needed a skin
girafting. The "doctor,, an Irishman
took :a piece of akin from. Churchill's
,forearm, about half elf inch • square, imperial ` General Staff, who recently
saying, " ou've heard gf a man be-
ing--falaye s --aloive-?•- Well; -•thie-is'-what;
it feels s ike." And it .di • ! - Mr.
C ,,T 1�
hu I ,tells a` harrowing story o$
the' actor's razor being sawn up and
low his arms He still bears the sear.
Clashed with Kitchener
In E • pt,1Vlr: QQhurehill had ,a .clash
with. - L • rd Kiteh. ener,' -displaying' .:a
Moralc 'usage .that has bean'. amply
demons
a .'.on-Bemany�c si
s occasions:
ted
a
s , • Lord 'Kitchener! ..ordered •' that
the Mehiii's- tomb be destroyed, claim-
ing it was •a rallying. point Ter the
PERSONALITY
• PA E ,_
General Sir John Dill, Chief of the
�vis,ted - Turkey and Greece with For-
eign 11aR. inister Anthony Eden, -is yet
another distinguished Irishman who
saes given his military genius, to the
.11ritish army. He is often called "Our.
Christmas Day General", for. he was
born on a Christinas Day nearly 'sixty
years ago, in , a little town in Ulster.
His chief forte is strategy; he beJiev
es in fighting -with • brains as • much
as guns. And he is ,no believer in
wasting Men;. he thinks, rightly; that
skilful . planning. ''saves a lot of lives.
rebels: Mr. ; Churchill, in his news- Like .General '.Wavell, he did a bi
paper articles,;, called. it "an act of job in. Palestine where. Arabs put;_a
•
vandalism without excuse".- ` pule on 'Ins' head: Posters were put
Early; in 1899, Mr. Churchill, find- up offering "$2,500' for the British
ing that the life of an officer. pre;. devil Dill, dead ' or alive". •
sented increasing . financial • (ifficul - --
BRA;I NI -TEASERS.
1 Why, is. the Bren gun so called?
2 'Have the Swiss an language of their
own? .. ,
3 , Wihere is Britain's'oldest shipbuild'- '
•-_._., ngyardi --(a)• CIy4ebank (,'b _-�---- -
• Greenock; , (c) Newcastle,on.- ,
Tyne; (d) Iondan: (e) Belfast.
'4 With what countries • were these .
notorious 'outlaws associated 7—
fa) Dick
—fa)"Dick Turpin; ' • fb) Jessee-
James; (n) Ned, • $eily; (d)Rob• ' y
••"RQ'; (e) Robin Hood;;'(f)' Claude '
:Duval? .•
.
5 WTiich of. the following is the lar
'gest dog' in the world'?—. ,!•,.Red
• Setter, a Dacliehti^nd, s: Sheepdog',
an' Irish Wolfhound', • Schnauzer,
g a Great Dane? .' _
6 If you-, cry easily at sad scenes
the mo'vi.es, You are . said to • 'be—. • -
1- • Jocose, -Bibulous, Bellicose,. Leah-
rymose or'Facetious?
Try and answer these ,questiens..be-
fore' turning to correct answers at .
thie foot of this column. '
'ties to,one who lacked an independent. The Scots Again.. Here is an' amaz-
income, resig�.jjed his commission, to Mg story of commerce,: even for the
devote 'himself to the more lucrative .cot SixtyDundee
S, s. years,ago, five Dun e
profession : of 'writing books: Already ' men -,=an engineer, a financier, ,one of
he, had 'written "The Malakand Field, l:,i ivate means ;and two jute menu-
Force'' --the story of the Indian can•►- facturels--formed a company called
paign, 'and he now started the history the Matador Land' and Cattle , Com -
of the Sudan, campaign. He was 24. I !,any Limited, .and went into the bus!:
But the clouds were lowering over :ness of ranching. Not one of these
South Africa, and before the . year men had.the slightest • knowledge
w s- out-- Mi Ghui elul ' a aful•1 V.;a._� • __ __ �_ eve . _ m -
� _ . � h s' a 3"` 1 aile1:11n�', they had never seen a ranch
accredited war correspondent; was en and would net have recognized. a steer
r- his way out 'there..' ' if they''d seen one, They dent' a' fell-
. ,..+... ,: ..:' -. ! _! �... - .:'.._.:. :. .: ... .. , _. _-.... ... .. .... ...__'.._. r..T._.__. .. _-. ......._-•.__
Next. weeks • al ticle tells! of Mi ow -Scotsman, named• Murdo • Macken-,
Churchill's capture 8i, esca'pe from the zie to : manage the' ranch they . had,.
sbou'ght' in Texas. And he • knew as-
little of the:cattle business as they.
did.' Today, the Matador Ranch is one
of the two' largest in' the 'world. It le
56 , miles . long and .42 •miles: wide.
Nearly 20,000 ' animals, ,are shipped
from it every yeafto the. meat •mar,
kets. And it Is - 110W 'awned." ,by 400
Scots who . have never seen it! `"
A STRANGE DISH:.. How would
you liketo eat •onion and, octopus
The natives:of the: Dodecanese, those
Italian=owned isles which, you're go-
Longest Speech ' angto hear a lot about"' in the near
Wm. Vincent, Allen made the ,
long= future..regard: this as . a.• read '•suc
, y
est continuous''speed?'ever delivered culent dishy They say :that. the oct-
'in'the. U. •S. Congress. He spoke for opus' has' 41. lives and must .be' bat
14 hours against aa bill in October., teed against a rock that many, times•
1893:' before it is.' dead. Personally, we'll.
stick.' to steak; it is sometimes ten-'
der! Incidentally, most .of the net -
Visitor: ' "What make is your',,ives of these islands,,which lie close
grandson's' new' car ?r' - • .to • Turkey's shores, are Greeks. The
Grandma: "I think' • 1 heard hien Dodecanese were formerly Greek, but'
say it was a Wow".. were .taken by .the' Turks :until 'the
-Boers, , aiici• -th stt--of-•ili:s•bxaliitlnn t
political. `career.
Copyright ,Reserved,. .. ,
Reproduction Forbidden). '
•Dagis=Did .you .have any buck ;on
'your 'hunting. trip;?' •
andall I -Il say I d}d. I. shot 1•7'
ducks:
Davis=Wre they rw•ild ?•
";Randall=No,
„hut . the farmer who
Owned ,them was.•
,
"Speaking of signs", writes a .col-
umnist, "I remember once standing
in front of .a grocery ' store and not-
iced the sign, 'A. Swindler' ' on the
window. Entering ,I asked the pro.
ieto
p z fit. w . ldn.t lotllti better , ,>fru; �•.
instead of "A", he printed his full.. ,
Christian name". •
, ,e x 5tt`>arould-loolcavvoiae:= ..:'
My first .name is Adam".,
Italians took•them shortly before the.-.'
last war "
'• ARE YOU SUPERSTITIOUS? Dol
you walk around a ladder instead" of
under it? Do you ; carry a good luck'
Charm?" If you are 'superstitions, you. •'
are in exalted' company. Napoleon
had a desperate fear ;''f seeing blaik
cats: George Washington, :that great
American, stated that an: iron ring
pressed against • human flesh would
cure anyone who : suffered ' from fits!
The great Cornelius Vanderbilt was -
so afraid of his "evil 'spirits" that he
had each leg of- his.!bed-set-in-a-dish
of salt to keep theIltifrinn attacking, .'
him while' he slept.: We. all know Ad- -
olph Hitler for ,years consulted "the
stars" before • making • any moves..
.Benito Mussolini, too, •tried to fore
tell, the .Mare by studying playing '
cards; and before he made his fam-
ous , Blackshirt march; on Rome, be. '.
studied thee cards for hours. r
Royal Military College at Sandhurst.
where he 'finally, came into his own,
" r he passed out, ,with honours, high
class of 160. - ' • -
Brushed Shoelders with Death
In the'following year, when he 'was
21, he was gazettedto the .,Fourth
Hussars. Now commenced a period
of; military life when he tasted deep.
of adventure and fighting. He •played
polo, brushed shoulders with'death in
foreign lands, and served a brilliant
apprenticeship ' at war 'eorraaponding.
I•n !India .he took- part in the cam-
paign' against • -troublesome Pathan
tribesmen, sand later he accompanied
Lord Kitchener's army of the Nile
in their clashes with the, Dervishes
in the. Sudan. At the same time, he:
wyrote .articles on the campaign for
IIondon newspapers.
•THE
UNITED
tH,U.RCH
vortcryv
SUNDAY ' ,
MARCH: 23rd
Yoluir rousing response to
this united appeal will be
the 'cheeriest word you
can send him
Private John Smith is through with drill and.
'rte rro--arc; a'zc '
He is tired, Maybe a hit "fed up." He is far from
home and 'lonely.
- ' He longs for a dash of gaiety,a bit of cheer : r
yearns, perhaps,. for a homey inolik' where he can
read,play games, listen, to the radio, write to the
folks back 'home. ' • ;
'lt> is the job of these six organizations to see
that discomfort, boredom, loneliness have no place °
in the precious leisure moments of our men' in •
"uniform. -Wherever they go these services go too,
come bomb Or battle. - . ,
In camp, on the 'March, on the ranges, . these
• services bring them hot drinks and snacks, smokes
and other comforts. llecreation centres are set up
sports and entertainment organized :.. reading
and writing 'materials supplied. , Comfortable
canteens provide extra food: There are educational
/facilities. Hostess houses.. enable the men to
enjoy healthy social contacts. •
Understanding, Experience and:Dollars 1
Undeilstaa•ding hearts,. organization and
experience backed by ,your 'dollars: can do the
job effectively. _
�� lret•the'voltinteer helper who calladn you;carry,-
back your • pledge of fpllest support for our
'fighting men. 0 .
You never have failed'them•=-you will hot teowi
THE ONLY NATIONAL APPEAL'
FOR OUR MEN IN' UNIFORM
National'Headquar ter•0 j 000 Bay St. "Toronto -
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11' a.m.--WHAT HAS CHRIST-
IANITY TO SAY?
4—ABo1T THE, GOD CHRIST=
,IANS.. woRsRr'P
3 p.m.—Church ',School. ,
-7 p m.......Evening''worship and
Song Service. • •
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(ANAD1AN WAR 5ERYI(E5 FUND
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CITAIRM.AN 1POlt ONTAI/I0 -L. coN\ S5i7i7`1'lE; Esq TO Or'l"C)•
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