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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1941-12-11, Page 6• • AA. , -••••••"'t.l'•ft "•TSB IMORNOW SENTINRL, LUCKNOW, ONTARIO • Our Food Supply (Nirritten especialfylor c- NewspaPers hY John Atkins, Farm- er Journalist.), • . ° NEIGIIIIOR, S ARE LOST The loss' et good neighbors is one Ortlierveatest losses -a -Tamarn - ily ean eUffer.- Beyond t,b.e family Circle there is nothing that means •So much. as the neighboring lam-. illea' whose friendship makes life rich' and *hese co-operation makes - farming possible. , • • , 'invalided Amite . . Pte, MUrgech 14/1444ean of Ripley was one • of tv,zentY4wo Canadian soldiers who wereinValided home from overseas, arriving in London. Ontario last Week They were trans- ferred to Wolseley Barracks. -TRANSIODK-OP"'eupt L- E�wen A. M. C., from the 15th Field Ambulance (AF) to No. ,1 District 'Depot (AF), London, is noted in. thelatest appointment, promotion and retirement list :received from Ottawa. - ' independent. • They have a stria Farm people' are. almost fiercely 'inks. • The farms which rewarded regard,lorAndividuality. They 101,.. unwritten<bode that respects toil and kilI and With good others atut, ‘safeitierde. education, end happy, cent- 0m„,,wit*., this code they *Unity life, ceased to be tkre:fto. generous, . kindly .and became almost.iMPUSsible,for co-operative people: 40.ig young people to buy out their eld- . • 'tune:has tetight, thern tliat they .myst ers and make :PaYitents that would avoid Lmposition upon440:i other permit the'old foIks, to:, retire in • but, they also have learned not to modest' comfort. ' • Farm Yalues. de, 1 lose any opportunity to_heip:'wher. clined. The .,money needed for np- ..1 ;heir,is rimied. They live inihde-repair ..could. 'nOt be. re covered. City earnings Pe44940 and in interdePendenee, .. doubled - preserving the good Of each. . while farm earnings were halved. Upon the firm foundation of their Young ••_people left the farms and • code they have built friendshipsbe-the old people tried to carry on. tween and among families that have Families: left the farms and often lasted,....fpx, generations;, friendships no families , replaced them. Many farms were abandoned, as any mot- et 4,41,10.47 that can<. be. grown only the soil of,rural coin ties orts- t may see., • • -•.There is ineaSuring' the 'depth Of , When the neighbors movecLaWay, 004, for. each. other that exists personal •losses that cannot, be reck- amerg those who have lived and- onedwere_sidfired iv those who ' shared the Cakes and joys, the fail-, remained.: The. losses that could be , urea. and successes of farm life. counted were, bad enough: Schools •In the rural 'ennamnnitias, of Can- emptied; 'seine were, closed. iheLlarin4arrilies,Itnprovemente..-..inereasect.„..41. are good neighbors. Observe • how cost, with fewer to pay. Goods and Mr.. tlhasi24-4h-e.Y..gt'et wher,• SeruiteS Iheandussele and ever they meet; 'reeied in coat, with less • howI tb ' 1 d greatly they 1, _ buy rarmlnices_ agge Johnuron spentSunday with Mr.and. Snuth of' the 8th Co. ncession, H', en.fUir*Ottig 'together socially, at hind. !yen now, in wartime, • the church, at picnics,' and on the streets . trek freni iMv firm earnings to high of their, trading, towns. . . : , city earnings' continues, Until the,• • Up nntil twenty years ago farm production of needed food is. threat- I ' • • , • , ' families spent their lives with their ed. - , [Presbyterian T.WA. • friends .The problem Of; the, loss of The -Noveiiiber meeting a the • theelders died, yoimger members neighbors and preducers.ln the rur- Y.W.A. of the 'Presbyterian church ' of the families succeeded them, Con. al 'areas is of grave concern to all was held at the home of Miss Mary tinning and strengtheningthe, ties' Canadians who realize that 'a fund-. MacLeod. After- the, Scripture les, thai7---bourict-t therlannlies--ingetherr-amental-ofreanasli.air'imtkbeing7is'--sonc----Mias,401ition--MteDougall7-leol- The,,,yOUng people :•whe. left °the .the '.'produCliOri f food for a world in prayer. The Bible Study was talc -farms had '0-• tirm-Attachnient to the that 'bas never been well *fed. The. en by Mrs. MacLeod: A duet 'was old;hottietteads and a lifelong in:. foodsupply for present needs and sung 'by Miss Marion MacDonald terest in the old neighborsWho nev- Caneda's.futtne prosperity depends I and Miss Katherine MacDougall. It interest in themupon a solution of panicle's agrie- was decided to hold the next meet • Times changed for, the worse in ultinral problem., The tragedy of the ing on ;December .18th. The nomin- -.- rurel Canada. Only twice in • the 'neighborless farm family may be-' etingcommittee was appointed.' past twenty years havefarm prices come the tragedy of food shorteges, Mrs. Orr and Miss Greta. 'Campbell and.larnt_earningS been is fair re- in neighboring towns and Cities, in „gave :readings,. and Mrs. Morgen and-4hr. Catintries: Hendersotwtnokeqflze4opi..-=.-• .. • . , • • LANGSIDE The Orls met at the home of MiSses-ArdYss and Gartie Brown on•Saturday evening and studied • their project "Clothes closets up to date": ••• The Langside Red Cross are hold- ingtheir.' election officera on Wednesday evening in the Forest- ers Hall. ' • Miss Reba ,Marshall of Teeswater Spent the week -end at her home here. Mr: Roderick Ross had a radio installed last week.' Miss Teresa. Caskinette -returned, with her sister Gertie to Kitchener. last weekand intends* to remain for some' tine.. ..». . • family of 'Fordyce •spent Suncla „ Mr. and? 11/Lrs. 'ElWpod Barbour. with Mr: and Mrs. Herb Pettipiece. Mr: and. Mrs. Victor..Etnerson spent Sunder -With Mr. and Mrs. George Harkness. M. and Mrs. John McInnes and family' spent an evening recently -with Mr. and Mrs. Wesley. Tiffin. Mr. Armstrong of Teeswater spent a few days recently with Mr.. and. Mrs. John Richardson. • Red Cross -quilting meetings were, • held last week at the home' of. Mrs. Ralph Caskinette' Mid Mrs. j. B. IVIorristirrand On , Monday of this week at the home Of WE J. J. 'John; Rumours are going the round that AC2James Morrison in whose hon. •or this, locality intended holding a social and dance on Friday even - nig of this week had been trans - 1 • IF, It II 4,111,IE AT TOUR WITS END. TO KNOW WHAT TO GIVE FOR CHRISTMAS Stop Worrying ORDER Gift Subscription ToThe LUCKNOW SENTINEL WE DO THE REST INCLUDING SENDING A :GIFT CARD ANNOUNCEMENT. HE • LUCKNOW $2.00. in Canada • s . ENTINEL i2.50 To: The U S A Flying Over the Atlantic On a Magic Carpet • (By Hugh Tonsil') • We mrere ahtios netting one of Flying across the Atlantic is pure Magic. ' There is no other way to describe it. No modern novelist has ever told the Story. It is necessary to go away back to the Arabian Nights with its magic carpets, to Icarus with his wax wings and his unsuccessful at- tempt to fly over a much narrower -body of wateror to Pegasus with 'his broad -pinions. ,Clipper trips are More modern than our literature. 14 writer in one popular American magazine recently tried to tell Sbout the flight. from New York to Lishen, but he 'depended heavily on photo- graphs.. He did say, thOugh, that those whe had crossed' the • by.Clipper bokinged td the most Oc- clusive club in the world. The mem- bership fee was $1,000 for less than a week and one requires •"pull" be - aides to become initiated into this society. (Officially, the term :is riot "pull" but "priorities".) • Perhaps there is Some truth to that, but it does .not seein a prosaic way to speak of magic. • In many ways, modern science im proves on ancient fairy stories. I al- • wayOs had some doubts abotit the de- sirebility-of4travelling--- by -carpet - high above the earth. The carpet was sure to be draughty, If one mov- ed too near the edge,, there .was al-' -WsYs-a-danger-of7fallirrg7off. A-nd- after all ,the lady of the Arabian Nights' and the other ancient story tellers knew- nothing of- the actual loveliness of the world far above the clouds and particularly- at sun- set, or, the approach. of a thunder, storm, or when a: rainbow spread Itself into a full cirele_in front_ of. the plane. Nothing they ever im- agined could 'equal the beauty of that world and it is ahnost imposs- ible to •describe .it to earthbound readers. , I Meeting the Other Editors • At New York, I met five of the other 'editors who were to make the trip to , England. Three were. frOm Ontario and two fOrnt Montreal; B. K. Sandwell and Bishop R. J. Rent- ef Toronto; Grattan O'Leary of Ottawa;. Oswald Mayrand and Lio- rtel, Shapirck,.of. MoratreeLz The. lasts named lives much of the time in Washington and knows Newi'York which was fortunate, for we learn- ed that 'a Portugese visa was neces- sary before we boarded the Clip- per, and this required much ruri• ning around and .the payment of, • eight precious,Artierican dollars each to the Portugese Embassy before we embarked. (Later we learned just how much travellers through Por- tugal have to pay toward the up- • keep of Dictator Salazar's, govern- ment.) ' - • The new Airways Terminal, 'op- posite the Grand Central Station in • New York, is surely one of the Most •beautiful and appropiate buildings in the world. The en- • trance is a semicircle of inch -thick doors off -plate 'glass or one of the new plastics. Inside the doors,.the. Passenger ascends ,.,hy a moving stairway into a, greet blue dome studded with stars. Circling across • the *dome are the signs of the • zodiac and a bronze man With wings on his .back. NOt .until the travel- ler reaches the top of the stairs does--he--see the offices of the var- ious airways companies almost hidden around the horizon: When the time comes to go; large motor buses rise througli.the floor at the rear of the building, • coming up from deep cellars,. and the trans-Atlantic passengers are hurried away by tunnel a and roads to the airport. I• The Dixie Clipper rides at anch- or in the -bay, It -looks- exactly: -like :bright -stars: - = • • a' whale with- wings. The ;wings seem a inadequate—not at all the kind or size of wings'that.cine •would expect a whale to grow if it • had to.fly 4,000, Miles. or more in the next • two days. But the four • big Wright motors \ look efficient • enough t� drive their three -bladed propellers indefinitely. A Six -Roomed House with Wings Fifty-five • passengers left. New 'York in the Dixie Clipper that day but more than half of them stayed in Bermuda. They sat around in six rooms, most • of them large enough'for ten persons, for the Clipper is as large as a. house in. side, 'and upstairs the eleven men of the crew gat around in another ' rooni which the passengers never saw. It took 20 Minutes to get the • Dixie Clipper up off the water. It taxied back and forth over the bay r while the pilot tried the feel of' the wind against the wings. and man- ' oettvred 'for the longest run over • the Water. Once we passed three. • of Untie Sarri's neW• motor torpedo .bdats, each one with two machine . gun turrets and four torpedo tubes. _New York's marvelous bridges beh• tore-we-finallY--Startecl-down- the bay at full speed. Spray' flew up over the little square windows and soon the .slap -slap of the wawa against the bottoin of the hull .grew less violent and -then disappeared, and the Clipper was in the air. Jt - 'circled over the edge of New York twice • gaining height, and then turned east over • the marshes, and • swemPs and . then the broad At- lantic. Two, ships were nearing the coast. After that,-;,ziothir4 but wave i and clouds 'in every dir- ection. Wonderland :Above:the Clouds' Flying the Atlanticoas I said be- fore, is mire' Magic. One does not realize it at first. Flying was not a new sensation for me. I .had been doing it for 20 years in planes large and small, but ' never for more than a few hours at ra, time.: This was different. I sat on a 'sofa with two other's. One was a young American girl who had saved her money for a luxury holiday in Bermuda: 'the other a Detroit • newspaper man returning te Europe: The plane was heated' and ,air-conditioned.-Even,thealt-cov-- • ering, added to the feeling of ,InX- ark for it was ,a tapestry with maps ,of the continents 'and oceans. Din- -ner-tenonsorrenereliick, en Salad, ice cream and toffee. • All these things were mere Man- made attempts at -comfort: t The real magic vtas outside the wind- ows. Every time I looked out, the long, . slender, pointed wing was- -still there with its two whirring propellers: Far down MOW us were the .clouds, fer we flew at '6,000 , to 8,000 feet where the air , is still and there are few bumps. It was fortunate that we had clouds <all the way across. The Atlantic, seen, froin, that height, grows des-. perately monotonous when the air • is • clear but clouds are always changing shapeand color. :• The sun set behind a distant row. •of tilt* clouds' which lOolted like 'a far;Off mountain range. A long' path of yellow light stretched over • qtrevithiteneisrok the, nearby,- cloud% They looked like masses of Spun' sugar candy. .As the sun dropped away, the sky flamed with color. In, three-quarters • of the dome of heaven, it was already night ' but out in the west the full' range of the spectrtun stretched across the' sky, brilliant red' at the horizen, • going up through,. the. yellows and the blues to the deep indigo of • night overhead with a few stars already brightly shining. Lightning Around the Wings Nearing Portugal, we mei a high thunderstorni. This time, the 'Clip- per seemed unable to rise above it. The clouds were apse around and often we were in them, like a thick fog. The lightning was around us, too, Sometimes just beyond the, wings; bid there was •no sound of thunder above the roar Of the mot- ors. It was bumpy, too, and for the first time, two ladies felt sick and strapped themselves to their seats. For some others, men and womenalike, it was 'just a new, and en- joyable SensatiOn.• • At .night, the steward made up the -berths. That ivas'after we had left Bermuda. There were 23 pass - en and room for them all • engers to sleep. I had one of the worst positions—up close to the wing and number three . and four engines— but ,the bed was cornfortable and there was a rythm to the noise that was soothing, so I slept well. Out- side the window there was a tiny ',silver of new' moon and the very Magic Doesn't .Alwrtys Work Yes, flying the Atlantic is, magic but sometimes in the hands of bard -headed Americans the magic goes wrong. We should have left New York on Tuesday morning and have been in Lisbon on Wednesday • night. But N nuniber four engine wasn't behaving too well even be- fore we left New York. Out of Bey- mnda six hours, the• Clipper turned back because of bad Weather ahead. On the second try; we reached the Azorea, but after landing there for more gasoline, the ailing engine' died es we were opposite the last' islands of, the group and we turned back to Horta, where the Atlantic Clipper carne along and pieked us up; taking us the rest of the way. Even food ran short at last before we dropped down mit of the dark- ness on :to the Tagus River at Lis- • bon on Friday night. Weliad been, 47 hours in the,eir instead of the usual 23, and had done some '2,500 - extra miles of flYing. And the next morning, we were in the air again, this time headed LtitiC.'zikAar rZA,''':'‘.6* • • tn'4'..*-'11"••11,''.i... • 441 t.:4440".** J..,1 t,.:.••••••lt,1 Phi!. • THIIRSDAY, DECEMBER iltb 194 mostritaaamommo he truth is, were up RUTH T against the biggest nisi.. of Lang • Distance Chriptinao. cane "ire've ever bad,. Even with hundreds of extra. people on duty Chriainau • EbevearledtCobxmiesteint all demands. r•• , ' • • • . ow' 1 ' a n d CONSEQUENCES The consequences are ,bound to be delays and disappointments Were --sorry Wie liope_y_oull_undfrAtand... and accept them — in • the spirit orf Christmas. much. I ammonia. •1 ' PAPER -RESTRICTIONS . .-KII NTAI L .. • •• • A traveller for one of Ontario's largest paper firms gave us' the fol- lowing information, which has' been decided upon by the government, and accepted by all paper manufac- turers in the Dominion: Every -class of, paper is to be standardized. All, fancy finishes on bond papers is ta- boo. There will be no colored envel- opes henceforth. White envelopes can be secured in but •two Weights of stock. A. limit has been placed *our weigl*.ot.papent.tobemasecl for catalogue, prize lists, house or- gans, etc. Colored newsprint can be secured in but six colors, instead . • the usual 13 colors. Only one weight can be secured of mimeograph pap- er. Manilla and kraft envelopes can -be secured in but -two-weighs. Col- ored bond paper and 'White bopd paper has been limited to a certain weight and 'the number ,of colors for bond paper has been reduced by three. • ZION. •; Messrs. James Hunter and Cecil. Gardner of Fewlers•,Meat Packing Plant, Hamilton, were •home fax the week -end. • Mr. Clive' • Mintz of, . Rapid City . is assisting Mr. Robert Andrew for the winter... - . • . . The December meeeting of Zion S. will be held at the home of Mrs. Grant ,Ritchie on Friday -afternoon at 2.36.' Please note Change of place, end date. Miss Webster and pupils are busy practising for a Christmas concert. • • • The Kintail. Woman's Institute •held their December meeting at the home of the_ • resid - o ; • • Scott, on Tuesday, cember 2nd. There, was a good attendance. The roll can was answered by "My Fay • - onrite Xmas care. Donations of 40 ' were .voted to. the DUngannon and ' Lucknow branches `al the Red Cross.. Three quilts were on display which the ladies of the lOth Concession had quilted. Plans were made to ' • kbetatslil7gmere drawn for inexpensive Xmas gift exchange. Mrs. Jaa.' :and Mrs. Lorne Parrish read papers. Miss. Anna Mae Parrish con- ducted a contest. After the , close of the meeting a dainty lunch was Served' bY the hostesses: -The-next meeting will' be at the home Of Mrs. Jerry Dalton. • ' A411011611 NOT having beeni in possession of a gun during, a deer hunt or participated in the actual chase of the fieety quadrupeds, Earl Whitehead, of Brant Township was fined p0. and costs' in Walkerton police court when he was found guilty of assisting a party of hun- ters from the Moncton district by serving in the capacity of guide. In his testimony the accused explained that he had. 'merely. directed the •nimrods, who had called at his home on the day in question, Nov. 13th, to a section in -the vicinity Of•Walk-s erton where he knew there were several deer. At no time ,did he have a gun in his hand nor did he leav'e the road to join the others in the tramp through the woods. • ta C. P. R. Employees' $50,000 Buys Two Fighter Planes. "median Pacific Railway einployee:"169Magga' th:T:111.1.tltedl „ • thzoughout ILO have, brdonating old, gold, • treasured keepsakes, •and teak ' contributed 850,000 for the purchase of two fighter aircraft for • the Royal Canadian Air 'Pore. the cheque was.presented at an int terenriony held recently in the 'Windsor Station eon - course in Montreal; when, representatives cif the service* °Vitiate of the companY, ,employees, and representatives of the R.O.A.Pt joined in a colorful ceremony. Illustration shows C. E. Stockdilli• ' assistant to. the yiee4iresident,' Western Lines, presedting the, • cheque to Air Commodore A. de Nlverville, Aix OfficerOtflcer Comtnand. ing No. 3 Training Cominand, who in turn passed ft on to Air ; Vice -Marshal G, 4. Johnsen*, M.C., 'deputy Chief of the Mr Statf: The idea 01 the Golden Aircraft Fund originated with MISS Gladya; Gowiland of the company's treatnity departinent* and was carried • , through to a rigOreus finish hy an employees‘ collablittee.