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PAID HIGH TRIBUTE
An editorial in a recent 'issue of
the Vancouver Sun paid the follow•'
ing' tribute to Chief Justice M, A.
- MacDonald of Vancouver,. a native
+of Ashfield Township: ,
"Hon. M. A. MacDonald; $ Chief
Justice of the B. C. Court of Ap-
peal, died at the week -end follow-
t ing a career full of action and dra-
rnatic interest in this,. his adopted
province. No man lovedBritish. Col-
umbia mere than he'. No man was
willing to make more personal sac-
rifice' it
"Coming from Eastern . Canada as.
a young lawyer, he quickly got into
politics, where heenjoyed' a Spect-
acular . career, marked by more -than
the usual 'number" of shinny inci-
dents During the years of his 'mem-
•bership of the •Legislature; part of.
the time as attorney-gexieral,.hewas.
oftenthe .centre .of some sort of
political battle. It Was here that
his quality for making lasting
friendships aided his natural gifts
of oratory and a dogged .fighting
spirit to make him the outstanding
figure . that he' became.
• "A good lawyer, he developed in-
.to a judge of high ability. It was in
tl_ie_ .1* eld wherg_.,polities and._ state-
craft merged into legal theory and
practise that he reveiled' and in this
his best work was done. With tre-
mendous enthusiasm he threw him-
self into the inquiry on oil and fuel
nnYtiated"'iy 'tile"Goverritnen't-three
years ago: He •went deeply into that
subject and his findings showed
treanendons grasp of the v ried ram-
ificiations of a most complicated
business.: It was not merely a 'legal
• finding -that he turned otit. What he
attempted to produce was a work-
able' schedule that would stand the
everyday test of operation, of a great
industry touching the lives of. num-
bers of citizens..He applied ideals
of public reform as. • far aspossible
to the legal position which he -found
existed; paying as little attention
e could to the.techrncalities: of
•Matter in hand. He .aiiired at
'an administration of the law on a
-basis of the common good, •So clearly
and siMply stated that any layman
could understand. He despised as an
anachronism a legal argument that
might be technically corerct but was
still questionable . public . policy- His
mind and, intention were legalistic
` enough._ but, he possessed. a ,;robust.
e ire for ih •hC oaf•that�o '
°r-La^�a,"t�: •..ti,,py s Pc T^IT..i. f:w,kvuaw,+.'»,:uF,.,. e...,. w7
Tns�poliisesle d --a rc s '
of loyalty -. to p rty friends, and this'.
sometimes caused him to be mis-
understood: But no public ;ria in
British. Columbia during his period
was more' sincere 'in, his desire to
bring happiness and prosperity to
his fellows. He . loved his adopted
province and •was greatly jealous of-
its position inrelation to the Can-
adian Commonwealth. British Col-
umbia is •a' better province for his`
'having. lived in it and for the hard
work he did for it". •
Few Discredit Many'
Too much drinking among a few
-
of the soldiers home on.leave' gives
" tem, impression of the town and
, - also of His Majesty's forces. The
great majority • of our boys are not
this type but there are a few who
seldom come home -without getting
into scraps and raising a racket on
the front street. Recently three 'or
four }fights took place and Warton
• 'Oderly coni p
•
peop.e strongly ,object to thi dis-
uct. The oliee are -as
'Tient 'as they possibly can be with
the soldiers but several fines have
been imposed. ' We trust this rowdy-
ism will stop as it . is a 'case where
the many suffer for the few.—Wiar-
ton Echo. ,
NOT A GOOD HEALTH RECORD
It isnot onlya surprising 'revela-
tion but a blow to our pride as well
that the
healtr h of young Canadians
edrsaEvry'fafibril tsfa 'service
Of a
total of 217,388 men examined about
56 per cent, were placedin category
A, the only Category accepted for
training at present by the Defense
Department. From the 115,000 men
reporting 10,000 were rejected after
• reaching training centres. Kipling
referred to Canada as "Our Lady of
the Snows" and lesser poets have
sung the praises of our virile men
of the north but medical reports
Clearly indicate that there has been
a let down since the good old days
�� when Canadians boasted of their
i"`\ strength and stamina. Of course, all
.men' rejected will not be lost to the
armed forces. Plans are already be-
ing made. to recondition these re-
cruits and good results are expected
to ensue. During the first Great War
. " a large number of young men were
rejected Owing to defective teeth,
'the old axiom that an, army travels
on its stomach prevailing. At that
' time reinforcing drafts were badly
needed and a man of the ,hour turn-
ed up in, the person of the late Dr.
Walter Thompson of ;Hamilton. He
told the military authorities -that
iven the proper quarters and the
tessary equipment he would soon
• remady the matter of defective
teeth. As a result a dental clinic was
• established at ;Camp Borden with
a large and competent staff:and for-
ty theusand
or-tythousand men, who ,would other-
wise, have been lost to the service
were successfully treated and .ulti-
mately proceeded overseas.'
Across TheGAtlantic
.In Af I1Zefu ee[ (Ship
(By Hugh Templin)' Friends and Neighbours Pay Fine
Somewhere hi the 'Atlantic, be- Tribute to the .Late John Pritchard
(Contributed)
Slowly . and tenderly the remains
of the • late W. J. Pitchard were
borne to their last resting place un•
der a clear sky . on the twenty-first
of October°, -1941, Friends -from. Longi
don, Preston, Varna, ,Clinton, Kin -
lough and other .places assembled
to pay their last respects to one, wile
•And when you'co;ne to think of it, ,ffor oiend many
nyd years had been a gooc.
tween the Azores' aneB.ermuda—
What a strange place this is for
the editor of a Canadian weekly
newspaper to be in this • latter part
of October, 1941, after more than
twoyears of war.
'what a strange • place for anyone to
be, •unless driven ' by dire necessity:
1Vifost of ,the other- 140 tieoplev an
;board the .U.S. : Steaship . Excam
bion.. aarehere 'bemcause . of, xiecessity.
They are fleeing :from .' unhappy
Europe, glad •enough • to. get away.
in spite of perils that • may still•lie.
ahead. 'They are "refugees, hoping
for peace in the United States. The
passenger .list -:contains the name of
a -Prince .related tp one of the still=
ruling -royal families of Europe.
There are such names as ,Gomez y
Gomez, and Pastuhov, and. Pin Tsoa,
and Radajewski. There -is- ;a group
•of, wholesome young people who.
have left. the U.S. 'Embassy in Ber-
lin while ' the going la' -good, and
several Chinese, families including
.some.,...acute aittle.....Ghlldren,,_ being
withdrawn from the Embassy • in
Switzerland.. There . is a .:mail .,from
the 'British • di loniatic; service,
cupymg a- ea • in a by -1 ixnselti c- -
cause he carries • confidential infor-
mation to Washington., and there
.is a • Lieutenant • in the U.S.Navy in
civilian clothes, returning 'from a
,Mission..to Britain; •There' are'itwo
English .woolen forced • to eave
-Eranee on -24,. hs''ourbtice They.
o
have not tasted meat' for twyears
because they fed their entire ration;
such as• it was to' a 'Siatnese cat. that
now accompanies them .
on the ship
There . is •'a little . French , girl' who
or • ere • wo pia lied eggs. fur break=
fast her, first morning on the boat.
and • then could not eat them. when
they , came,'. but" sat andcried . salt
tears over .them because her appe-
tite was gone. ' And another , family
from Unoccupied France ate no=
thing but potatoes for their first
few meals.. There .is even a stately
•Errglasi stern imhemyera�wrl o .
. Mr,'. Pritchard,' born of strict,.'de-
vout, Christian, 'pioneer parents, was
led. to ,seep' the enduring. things_ 'oi
life. • He- was ever ready to .attend
the'' House of God whenever health
and' weather- •permittd.. • ' • ' ,
Our dear departed brother often
helped' t'he widow,: the 'boy who had
in early life lost •a loving. 'father and
those Who were, sick and in .trouble.
Many' the stories was he heard
•to .relate of his boyhood. days. In 'his
early years forest ' fires were com-
mon: No. berries were ever 'as goon
as- those grown in the •place where.
the fire had been. 'When a young
-boy he was ,always ready• to• takt.
'part in wrestles with his comrades:
At all: the barn raisings about . the.
surroundings • country Mr: Pritchard
always took a leading part.
While • the beautiful flowers that
lay -on his grave fade away .and.die,
his- body crumbled to dust, we again
take comfort in the ' hymn which
Wes Gaeelic_ tengue-So
•oftimes 'by. the• late- Mr.. and Mrs.
Peter - `Matson.. ' •
oc- We'll •,work, we'll world till Jesus,
• comes. '• • •
And. then we will go home. •Home
to be ' .
Forever with • the Lord, and. me.
meatstQ . g to Rortugal and so
oh this slip.
Editors on a Refugee Ship
• In such a crowd as this, eleven,
Canadian editors may seem rather
out of place, and truly, noire of us
ever expected to be on this ship. We
had • planned to go flying through
the air from Lisbon; to New. York,
returning as we had come° But in
October flying. conditions are cancer''
tain. We seemed. likely to wait in
Lisbon for weeks' 'before our turn
carie to go on the Clipper. One
week in that city got us down. Those:
who were not actually sick were
entirely unenthusiastic about any
more Lisbon meals or climate or
scenery. We were nervous after be-
ing trailed day after day by mem-
bers of the ' German : gestapo who
stayed in the 'same hotel as we did.
When the chance came to leave by
boat, we took it.
One-` of- the- editors_ is --from- St -
John, N.B. He loves the sea and•
boats' and all things connected with
them, and he jumped atthe chance
to comer by ship. All the rest of .us
would have preferred to travel by.
air. '
Those iii Peril On the. Seas
Four days before we left Lisbon,
the papers of that city Were all ex-
cited because a Portugese ship had
been' sunk by' the Germans, ''appar-
ently . because of tungsten ore on
board, destinedfor, the United
States= Two days later; -they were
mourning the death of two British
families from Portugal, returning
to ' England until their ship was'
torpedoed off the coast On the way
to Lisbon, this same steamship Ex-,
cambion was met by a• German
bombing plane which circledaround
it, mast -high, and then flew away
again. On the day, we sailed from
Lisbon, • news camethat the Ger-
mans had torpedoed the American
destroyer Kearney. Two days out,
art American freight boat was sunk
in the Atlantic, straight south of
where we were. This very morning,
when we awoke, it was to see an-
other ship coming Closer. As it drew
near, we could see that it wasn't
the merchant vessel it pretended to
be, but had business -like guns fore
and aft. It had no flag, nor gave
any signal, abut crossed our° boys
and went op. We all realized these
dangers, but as the days passed arid
our boat continued on its way, the
tension relaxed. The restful, mon-
otonous days -on board ship gave
us all time to recover from stren-
nous and exciting times overseas.
When the invitation came to me to
go to England for ' a few 'weeks to
represent the weekly papers of Can-
thinks
We hear, the late departed say
-:Lleave this._,woxld_without_ _a tear,
Save for the friends I held so dear,
;To heal . their sorrows, Lord des-
cend
And to the friends • prove a. friend:
-ada;-there-were• . many -who -envied
me because of that' opportunity. If
it is any ;cofnfort to them now, I can
say quite truthfully, that there were
times when • I:,kwould gladly have
traded'places' with any ofthem.
Travel across the Atlantic these
days is something that should riot
be undertaken except fromneces-,
dc001PULSORY PASTEURIZATION
IN ONTARIO
In 1938 ithe Province of 'Ontario,
convinced `that further progress in
rendering the,milk supply safe need-
ed something° more than voluntary
effort, decided upon compulsory le-
gislation. An, amendment to the
Public Health Act was therefore in-
troduced making pasteurization
ebmpulsory in all cities and towns
irrespective. of the size of the pop-
ulation. Provision was also • made
for applying the Act by .Order -in -
Council to any area'recomended by
the Minister • of Health The pur-
pose
ur_pose of this' .Clause was, of course,
' to bring, in at .a later date rural
areas, • pleasure resorts, and other
• places that were likely -to 'present
special difficulties at the 'start One
important ;feature of the. Act is the
requirement :that. all milk must be
pasteurized in plants. that have been
approved by the Provincial Depart-
ment of Health, -•and,• that a'yearly
certificate,a approval, must, be ob-
tainedfor each.. plant to'' show that
it is still confirming to the official
demands ,, Anyone familiar, with. the
lack of uniformity of control in Gt.
Britain, where . pasteurizating plants •
are licensed by heal authorities of-
ten having little or• • no knowledge.
if the 'important factors concerned,
will appreciate.. the wisdom of this •
enactment.. Though this . legislat'ion
has. been in 3operation 'for only • two
years, considerable -progress . has
'leen :made., ,According to Dr. A. E.
Berry, Director '.of the • Division of
'Sanitary Engineering in .the Ontario
•Department of Health; 27 cities and.;
147• towns came automatically • un-
der the Act. Seven different Orders -
in -Council' have since .beeni passed'
designating villages, townships and
rural"'areas ll vrllages.. and -•police•
villages of ' 500• inhabitants • or over
have been • brought under the Act,
and many -'smaller cdinrnunities are
likewise inemded•: •--it,•-is -estimated
that over 98 per cent of all milk now
sold in Ontario. for consumption
the:fluid state is pasteurized. To do
this • 813 'licensed plants are `neces-
sary—a figure probably more than
'double that for • the. rest: 'of the,
Dominion. •. Difficulties have 'been,
encountered, .as was : to be expected,;
but ori the whole .progress has,`,been
remarkably ;rapid and opposition
has not been: serious, Byexonerating
local authorities .from the necessity
or' deciding . for or 'against' pasteur=
• ization-a decision • that had former-
ly to be •taken by bodies .. largely
rontrained_l , public health methods
—and by insisting on . uniform re-,
-quirements for • all pasteurizing
"plants ' in the Province, it has re-
moved two: important obstacles to
a progressive program of milk con-
trol. •. The.'.difficulty of providing
sparsely populated rural areas with
adequately pasteurized milk is. prov-
ing by no means irisuperable.4Piants
have been established at convenient
.centrek_froni Malik salt be de
HE DATE ON YO
a
D TO
Because it is 'a weekly reminder of your financial ' obligation
to your home -town paper. ' Your label tells you each . week
whether, you are ...
or in arrears.
paid •in advance''
•
IN ; ARREARS then this reminder is par-
ticularly
ar-ticul ri addressed' to you.
_'.. But: it lie hole lies :
wonderful weeks. I have crossed the
Atlantic by air, one ofthe most 'ro-
mahtic voyages in the world today.
I have flown altogether some 9000
miles -by. American Clipper,..Royal
Dutch Air Lines and British Over-
seas Airways.. I have visited Ber-
muda, the Azores, England, South-
ern •Ireland and Portugal. I have
talked • with Winston Churchill,
many members of his Cabinet,,, Bri-
tain's greatest ' newspaper men, a
former- Canadian Prime Minister & -
the Canadian High :Commissioner,
the •Canadian :Corps Commander' &
many of his officers and soldiers,,
and a host of the "common people"
of England who'have • come through
bombings, have lost their homes
and their relatives, yet 'carry on in
Britain's hour of need. I 'have tasted
the hospitality of great and small
in England . and have made new.
friends there.
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There have .been plenty of thrills.,
•
I have flown down the Bay of Bis-
cay in a seaplane with, not, a light
showing and the hostile enemy coast
not, far away. I have Stood on a
roof -top in London with the fire -
.watchers and have seen the distant
flashes of anti-aircraft guns shoot-
ing at an enemy plane approaching
the city. It have been through a
"blitz" myself—have seen -and heard
arid felt the explosions of huge en.
env land mines and have come
through the , ordeal unscathed. but
knowing. that-irf-anyone-of a -dozen
things had been slightly different,
I would not have been here at all..
I have been at a ' bomber station
and have talked to the boys who
make the long trips over France•
and Germany to unload their car-
goes of death, and I have seen the
loyal Canadian Air Force fighter
pilots come back to their airports
after beingin action.
England in Wartime
I have heard Churchill defend his
actions on the floor of the House of
Commons and have stood amid the
ruins of Coventry Cathedral: I have
walked in the London blackout ak►d
in the pleasant English countryside,
where every garden has its large,
late roses. I have been trailed by
the German gestapo in Lisbon and
have seen a . bullfight.. 1 have rid-
den on trains, in buses, in car's; in
the underground,and have talked
to friendly folk everywhere.
These are the things I shall write
about in the series of stories which
will appear in this newspaper dur-
ing the next three months. Always
provided; ,of course, that the Ex -F
cambion does not meet an unfriend-
ly submarine or bombing plane
sot iewhere this side of New York..
the 'effeeot ;that •'.the. eradication of
milk -borne diseases is likely to be,
but it is interesting to not that'
-the typhoid fever 'death rate in .1939
was halved, that cases, of undulant
fever were reduced by about 45' per
cent; and ::that a substantial diminu-
tion. was apparent in the infantile.
mortality rate: Ontario, is to be con-
gratulated on , being -the first large
darea in the British Empire to intro-,
uce •compulsory pasteurizatiop. It
is' to 'be 'hoped' others- will' soon,
follow its -example: An• Editorial'
from the 'British' Medical Journal;
You Can Help •
Seldom a week -passes but .that
someone tells us after the paper is
out, about 1ksomething that happen-
ed 'and that should have been re-
ported..It seems difficult to make
the public realize that the local
,editor in any weekly survey of hap-
penings in the locality must rely
to a great•extent on the' readers for,
the news as it appears: Too-, it must
be 'accurate, and not hearsay. Again,
it must be "new' news, for readers
like to know of something almost as.
soon as it happens. May we Suggest
to our readers that they helpus a
little bit in gathering the news of
the week by letting us know of their
news items as soon as possible. We
will much appreciate your co-op-
eration. !
NOT A LETTER LOST
Not one, letter has been lost of
the thirteen and a half million. flown
.between England and Lisbon in the
last year by the British Overseas
Airways Corporation.. ,
, Seaplanes. aid ' aeroplanes have
safely covered 750,000 miles with
4,000 passengers, and neither war
nor, weather has caused the ser-
vice to change its time -table since
it opened in 1939
Throughout the. Battle of Britain,
severe weather and hazards of war;
the air link between England and
Portugal, and by Clipper on to U.
S. A., has remained, unbr6ken.
Mails for prisoners of , war are
flown to Portugal and letters from
them are flown, free of charge, back
to Lisbon where the ,_ Portuguese
Post Office transfers them to Brit-
ish Airways. •
In July a special lightweight let-
ter -card was devised for air .mails
to prisoners of war. It costs only
threepence to fly' one of these cards
to Lisboii.and on by neutral plane.
to Germany. ' ,-
Tour'thousand five hundred of the
new letter -cards weigh- just one lair; I
the same number of ordinary air-
inail letters one cwt,' and-.-a...half.
•
Canada's strength is your strength, yours and your fellow
citizens. by saving you can turn your strength into effective
power for war or peace. -
Saving is more vital now than ever before.
It's wise to anticipate the needs of tomorrow, rather than
satisfy the impulses of today. You acquire • a thrift habit,
bringing a constructive force into your life and in a broader
sense — into 'Canada as a whole. '
Save all you can—it's the urgent thing to do 1