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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1941-08-28, Page 3back from school that Tho following poem is by Robert Nathan, who holds the Would Copyright and through whose CO'UUtCisy Canadian publications June been granted the right to yeprint this moving and beautiful selection, originally published in Harper’s Magazine, Will And , $ * & on an even sail, patched at his boat, day, ^uu he had little to say. But he stood a long time looking down To where the gray-green Channel water Slapped at the foot of the town, And to where Sarah R., Bobbed at the tide With her one old the leech, Furled! like a slattern down at the heel. little He stood for a while above the beach, He saw how the wind and current .caught her. He looked a long time-out to sea. There was steady wind and the sky was pale, And a haze jn the east that looked like smoke. . \ Will went back to the house to dress.’ He was half way through when his ’. sister Bess, ■ , Who was neai’ fourteen and young er than he By just two years, came home from play. ( She asked him, “Where are you going, Will?” He said, “For a good long sail.” “Can I come along?” “No, Bess,” ' he spoke, I may be. gone for a night and a 'day.” Bess looked at him. She kept very still. She had heard the news of the Flanders rout, How the English were trapped above Dunkirk, And the fleet had gone to get them out— ’ ■ But everyone thought, that it wouldn’t' work. There was too much fear, there was too much doubt. She looked at him and he looked at her. They were English children, born . \ t;and bred.’ He frowned her down, but she wouldn’t stir. She shook her proud young head. “You’ll need a crew,” she said. They raised the sail on the Sarah P„ Like a penoncel on a young knight’s lance, And headed the Sarah out to sea, To bring their soldiers home from France. There was no command, there Whs no set plan, But six hundred boats went out with them On the gray-green waters, sailing fast, River excursion and fisherman, Tug and schooner and racing M, And the little boats came follow ing last. From every harbor and town they went From Who had sailed their craft in the sun and rain,1* ‘From the South Downs,frdm the 'cliffs of Kent, From the Village street,from the ■country lane. There are twenty miles of rolling sea coast to coast, by the sea gull’s flight, But the tides were fair and the wind was free, And they raised Dunkirk by the fall of night. They raised Dunkirk with its har bor torn. « . By the blasted stern and the sunken prow;. They had raced for fun on an Eng lish tide, They Were English children bred and born, And Whether they lived or whether they died, They raced for England now. T Another Bad Night Could Bet No Rest To tho thousands who toco, night after night, da sleepless bods and io whoso oyds slrnnber will not come. To those wfc® ideep in & kind of way, but whose nwi is broken by bad dreams and nightmares. To those who wake up in tho morning m tired m on going to bed, we Offer in Milburn’s Health and Nerve Pills a remedy te help soothe and calm tho nerves and bring them back to a perfect condition, and When this is done there should bd no more sleepless nights duo to shat tered nerves. v Tho T. MUbuin OO^ I4d^ Toronto, OaL *s THE, EXETER T1MES.ADVOCATE JfHlg Greeting ................................. ........ Birthday Cards for evey member of the family Thank You;J Wedding Anniversary; Sympathy; Friendship; Convalescent; Enclosure;Congratulations; Birth Announcement. Air Observer Important Member of Bomber’s Crew Eighth <>f Series of Articles, About I plane: that is done by an exper- the Royal Canadian AU' Force Written Specially fop the Weekly Newspapers of Ontario By Hugh Templin series Bess was as sail, She set her Will. He held his veil ; Where the harbor and long. British ships strong. white teeth course The as the Sarah’s and smiled at for the smoky narrowed thin were firing ■<!> He took the Sarah into his hands. He drove her in through fire and death , the wet men waiting on the sands. got his loadarid he* got his breath, And she came about and the wind •fought her. To He He shut .his eyes and 'he tried'to ’ pray. saw his England, where she lay,He The wind’s green home, the sea’s proud daughter, Still in the moonlight, dreaming deep, The English cliffs and the English loam— He had fourteen men to get away, And the moon was clear and the ’ night like day For planes , to see whdre the white sails ’ creep Over the black water. on# hearing the name of the high est ranking graduate in a class. In the office are pictures -of the grad uates and scrap books with clip pings and more pictures of students --Winston Churchill’s nephew, the brother of a famous opera star, and so on. Many of them are in Britain now: a few are dead in the battle for freedom. GOffl^EKHi ienced pilot who knows Ontario as you know your own home. Observer charts the course for to steer and the Pilot carries those instructions to the letters less they may result in possible danger to the aircraft and the crew. Apart from that, he follows the ; course the student gives him, even if he knows it is at right angles to the direction in which he ought to be going. At the end of each trip, he hands in a detailed report, it omits nothing, even noting whether the student became sick, and wheth er he carried out his exercises spite of sickness. Rainy Day at Multon It was raining when I arrived Malton, but a few planes were up. The big silver liners of the Trans Canada and the even larger Ameri can Airlines planes were arriving at and leaving the nearby commercial airport, and the little yellow ele mentary trainers from another R.C.A.F. school were in the air, but the Avro Ansons of the Obser ver School were being 'Called home from the wireless /room, Perhaps that wasn’t entirely a disadvantage. Mr. Woollett was able to spare hours to the visiting newspaper man, and when he had to keep an other appointment, Duty Smuck acted as guide. All down one side of the control room were wireless sending and re ceiving sets. Two-way conversa tion can be carried on from any where in Southern Ontario. Later, I saw the wireless equipment inside the Avro, Anson plane and marvel led ’at its compactness and efficien cy. But that is not all, Recently a direction finding station has been installed. A lost aviator can send in a call for help, and when the ans wer goes back, it will' tell him ex actly where he is, and how to get back home in any kind of weather, Laid out on a large table in the centre of the room was a map of Ontario. On it was marked the ex ercise for the day. Colored pins were stuck in the map at half-a- dozen places, and a; black thread I was wound from one to another. This, marked the course the planes would be taking that day. It was not a straight trip out and back, but had several turns and angles. The student must learn to navi gate such a ’Course accurately, and he should be able to tell to the min ute when he will be back at Malton again. He may have, travelled 300 miles or more. Similar exercises are 'conducted at night. Out on the edge of the runway, a long line of Avro Ansons was drawn up, mostly yellow, but some silvery, and a few camouflaged. Some of them had seen active ser vice. They are altered for use in the school. The gun turret is re moved and some of the .windows tak en out. Guns are not, needed for protection here, and the plane gains speed and saves fuel as a resuljxof the changes. Everywhere" around the ..Observer School at Malton were evidences of ’similar economies. The oil is all fil tered tested, 88 per cent is as good as new. schools using British or American planes is the obtaining of repair parts. At Malton, most of them, ’are manufactured in a little work shop. A mechanical genius and a small staff, using machines of 'their own. designing, which look, as the Director put it, “like something out of a Heath Robinson cartoon,” make many of the repair parts out of easily obtained materials, saving money and keeping the planes fly ing. , Planes are overhauled in two' huge hangars. After so many hours flying, the Armstrong-Sidney motors are overhauled. Each Avro Anson has two of these big motors, giving a top speed to the altered plaries of 200' miles an hour, tervals, the whole down* and rebuilt. That day, there plane in one of the hangars, a huge Douglas bomber, belonging to the American Army. A committee from the Air Corps was visiting the Can adian schools and gathering infor mation. The visiting bomber dwarf* ed the Avro AnsonSj but it was somewhat older and lacked some thing of their sleekness Tile buildings at all Air Force camps are mush alike, things impressed me at Malton. Though officers: nel and men all have separate mess halls, their food comes from the same central kitchen. And there is a hospital with space for 25 beds, yet it. handle though ready, ways kept warm with hot water bottles. In the men’s mess ball, a full- size propeiloi* hangs on the wall, backed by a square of blue carpet used in Westminster Abbey when the King and Queen were crowned. On the hub is a silver Avro Anson and on the blades are replicas in Silver of the Observer’s badge, eaoli The him out UnIS YEARS AS© Ml*. Jack Batson has returned to his duties at the Canadian Bank of Commerce after a couple of weeks’ holidays, Clark—BlackwelL™-At the United Church parsonage, Repeal!, on Tues day, August 31st, Miss Bona Black- well, daughter of Mr, and Mr8- Chas, Blackwell, of Hay, to Mr. Louis Clark, son of Mr, and Mrs. Matthew Clark, of Tuekersmith. Mr. Bruce Tu-ekey, who has been working for Mr. B./W. F. Beavers, left on Saturday for the West. Mr. Harry M. Greb, a former stu dent of the Exeter High School, took a very distinguished stand in the Western University Scholarship list. He won first place in the group Biology,. with Mathematics or English and receives .$50 cash and two years’ free tuition at ern University. Mr. Frank Taylor has the ;pect of a rich reward from acre field of sweet clover grown on the farm of Mr, Wilson Anderson of tlie 2nd concession of Stephen. After the seed timated it will els, for which ceived an offer holding it at thirty dollars a bushel. While cranking a car Saturday evening, Mr. Ed. Coombes had the misfortune to strike the license plate on the car, inflicting a nasty gash in his thumb. In the Uppei’ School results for the Exeter High School the excel lent record of 90.65 per cent of all papers ’tried were passed, while in nine subjects not a single failure was recorded. This showing has not been exceeded in the Province. '---------v-------_ Previous stories in this have described the training of a pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force from the day he enlists, ra ther nervously perhaps, to that oth er, proud day, six or seven months later, when he “gets his wings” and completes his training in this coun* try. After that, he is ready to pro ceed to Great Britain, where he gets some experience under the some what different conditions in a land where enemies may lurk, Then he is ready to take over a 300-m.ile-an* hour fighter oi* to pilot big bombers over Germany. In those stories, I have completed the task I undertook, thanks to the hearty cooperation of the of ficials of-the Royal Canadian Air Force, but before the task was fin ished, I knew many things I hadn’t realized at the start. One of these is that while all the recruits want to become pilots if possible, the pilot is not the only important mem ber isn’t ber. ing of the Air Observers. Pilots, Observers and Navigators I sat one day in the office of Mr. W. W. Woollett, civilian manager of the Air Observer School at the great Malton Airport, “There’s a tendency on the part of the. public,” observed Mr, WOol- lett, “to think of the Observer as a man who just sits in a plane and looks out Occasionally, while the Pilot does all the work and takes all the, risks. Perhaps the word ‘Observer’ is at fault. A more ac curate term would be ‘Navigator’. The tim^ is coming when the Navi gator will be the captain of the large planes and the pilot will be only the wheelsman.” 'Mr. Woollett should know what he is talking about. He was a Pilot himself in the last war, and had hajl much, to do. with flying ever since. ) In 1929, he returned from England and with another Pilot of the Great War, operated a company in the north country. Dominion Skyways Limited, they called it, and their planes flew over much of Northern Quebec and Ontario. Name any ©lace north of-the Transcontinental, and he is sure to have been there. When war broke out in Septem ber, 1939, Mr. Woollett and his part ner, C. R. Troup, were asked to form the first Air Observer School. They had it going “by the .end of May, '1940, and it has been in operation ever since. In all that time, there has not been .one accident to stu dents, pilots, or planes—not so much as a flat tire on a landing gear. ■Canada may not have been prepared to go to war, but. in our experienc ed “bush fliers”, we had a great asset. The ton is ©any, of the air crew: possibly he even the most important mem- For that reason, I am writ something about the training ih at Pilot West- pros* a 20- • Get set for a mileage record with this big guaranteed top value tire , . . we have your size,is cleaned, it is es- turn out 300 bush- he has already re- of $6,00.0 but he is 2>e Jlwxe ALL-WEATHER Snell Bros. & Co G. F. Skinner EXETER, ONTARIO AYOTTE—CAMPBELL A pretty summer wedding took ‘place at Oui’ Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, Mt. Carmel, on Saturday, August 23rd, when Rev, Fr. Fogar ty united in marriage prances,,-sec ond daughter -of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Campbell, to^ l\|r, Richard Ayotte, son of Mr. and Mrs. Tuffield Ayotte of Drysdale. The bride, who was given in marriage by her father, was charmingly attired in a floor-length gown of pale ©ink triple sheer with a short shirred jacket. Het pink j net veil, hpld in place by a halo of I lilies4’ of the vallqy,.- was of -fingertip I length. She carried an arm bou quet of, pink Briarcliffe roses and bouvardia. The bride’s only at tendant was her sister, Miss Ursula Campbell, who wore an unusual floor-length gown of white organza embossed in blue with- white ac cessories. Her arm bouquet was of bronze Talisman roses and bouvar-- dia. The groom was attended by his brother, Alvin Ayotte, of Drys dale. The ushers were John Campbell, only brother of the bride 'and Lawrence Ayotte, broth- 6r of the gropm. Following the ceremony a dainty luncheon was served at the home of the bride’s parents to the immediate relatives. '4 The room was prettily decorated with pink and white streamers and a profusion Of gladioli, the table was centred with a wedding cake, guests t— green figured, rayoji. . Latei’ guests ©erial, Grand Bend, where a sump tuous wedding dinner was sei’ved An air force blue dress with ©laid jacket and navy accessories pleted the bride’s travelling tume. The young couple will up residence in Windsor. Guests were present from Carmel,- Drysdale, Uetroit, Fingal, St. Thomas, Windsor and LaSalle. ---------V-------- Here's an unbeatable philosophy of life: "Keep an even mind a'nd a fine spirit and eventually the bou quets will outnumber the brickbats.” I He closed his eyes and he .prayed for her; He prayed to the men who had made her great, Who had built her a land of forest and park, Who had made the seas an English lake; prayed for a fog to bring the dark; prayed to get home for Eng- kland’s sake. And the fog came down on the rolling sea, ■covered the ships with Eng- , lish mist. The diving planes were baffled and blind. He He And For Nelson was there in the Victory, With his one good eye, and his sullen twist, And guns were out on The Golden Hind, ' ' shot flashed over Sarah P. could hear them cheer as they came about. Their He By burning Wharves, by battered ships, Galleon, frigate and brigantine, The old dead Captains fought their ships, And the great dead Admirals led 'the line. It was England’s night, it was Eng land’s sea. three-tiered .' To welcome the the bride’s mothei’ chose _ . - y ’ the motored to the Hotel Im- com- cos- take Mt. The fog rolled over the harbor key. Bess held to the stays and conned him out. And all through the dark, while the Sarah’s wake Hissed bdhind him, and vanished in foam, , There at his side sat Francis Drake, And held him true and steered him home. ——v—— are the best Counter Check Books made in Canada. They cost no more than ordinary books and always give satisfaction. We are agents and will be pleased to quote you on any style or quantity required. See Your Home Printer First Ail’ Observer School at Mal- operated by a civilian icom- Dominion Skyways Training Ltd., under an arrangement some what similar to those whereby Fly ing Clubs operate the Elementary Flying Training Schools for Pilots. That enabled the R.C.A.F'. to take advantage of the experience of old er Canadian pilots, and it speeded up the early stages of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. The company looks after main tenance Of flying aircraft, buildings and flying in general. It supplies the experienced pilots and the re pair men. The R.C.A.F. takes over the ground instruction and cipline. Squadron Leader Jacobi is the Commanding A Specialized Job The course lasts twelve weeks. A new class comes in every month and another gradhates, but there are always three distinct classes at the school at one time. The ed ucational requirements for an Ob server are higher than for a Pilot. The course is stiffer and entails more hard work, though it undoubt edly has its share of thrills, even in Canada. The future Observer has a specialized job, and he must make no mistakes. Sometimes, those who start the course as Pilots and fail to make the grade are shifted to the Observ ers’ course. At first, they are dis appointed, but Mr. Weollett says that invariably they are all glad they changed before they have half finished their -course. The Air Observer must learn sev eral things, and all df them be be to of the dis- G. W. Officer. must must learn spite I and reclaimed, arid when One serious problem at all are At longer in- plane is torn' was a visiting but two civilian person. ‘’Every time I kiss you it makes me a better mau.” “Well, you don’t have to try to get to heaven all in one night,” THE TIMES-ADVOCATE done well. Rather, they done perfectly. He must lay out an ekact course, in wind and weather that will take him where he is ordered to go. More important, he must return again and know when he gets home. He must learn to operate a tricky bomb sight, so that h'is bombs find their target. And he must learn to use a mchine gun if need be. At the Malton School, he learns to navigate. Everything else is subordinate to t|mt, He does not have to worry about piloting the has ©ever had a crash to at this school in 20 months, an. ambulance always stands and two crash beds are al* 25 YEARS AGO Workmen are this week con necting the telephone lines with Mr. James Lawson’s new premises. Bread is now seven cents a loaf inn Exeter. Miss Ida Armstrong and Miss Coward leave this week for To ronto, the former to resume and the latter to commence teaching duties in the same school. Mrs. E, Christie left on day for Toronto to visit her ter, Mrs. Rogers. Dr. Rollins, who has had of the London Asylum as superin tendent, spent several days here with relatives and friends. Doctor and his family returned to Mimico on Sunday. The Ontario License Board picked out a hotel inspector each county and is instructing men in their work. -------_V--------- CHILD FATALLY INJURED IN FALL FROM CAR Thurs- daugh- The ■has for the Every man hates to settle down and try to think out his immediate problems. It’s much harder ’ to do than to work. What we want lo do, when we ought to settle down and think, is to wish and hope. AILSA CRAIG—Joan Campbell, who was in 'her fourth year, was fatally injured on Wednesday of last week, when she fell out of an automobile being driven by her fath er, on the southern outskirts of Ailsa Craig. Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Campbell, the father a well-known, farmer of Argyle street, East Wil liams, the little girl is believed to have accidentally turned the knob of the car door as her attention was attracted by something at the side of the road. < She toppled out on her face. Pick ed up by her father, she was hur ried to the office of Dr. A. of Ailsa Craig, but her were so severe that she about the time of arrival Surviving are an older sister, Phyllis, who was in the car as the time of the mishap, and the father 'and mother, the latter formerly Kathleen McIntyre, of East Wil liams Township. The funeral was held from the - residence, lot 11, concession 2, East Williams, on Friday afternoon, at 2 o’clock. Interment was in Nairn Cemetery, D. Letts, injuries died at there. GO 50/50 WITH OUR FIGHTING FORCES CAR V-";/, condition Give yourself and, your service station man a break, let him check up your car and put it in shape to save gasoline. It gives: him needed work and helps you keep your 50/50 Pledge. Every gallon counts: soo that not a. drop is wasted: our Fightingr Forces need all the gasoline they can get REMEMBER The slower you drive, the more you save I and. g/tat# yowz. G-om&w Am. VICTORY I