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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1943
An Exceptionally Fine Day
So far we have not had quite as fine weather
as was our lot on Christinas Day. The sky was
clear, The sun was at its brightest. Scarcely
a breath of wind was abroad. For the most
part the roads were qpen. Families gathered
together and for the most part, the tables were
abundantly provided. There was little hilarity
That seat that Bob or Janet usually occupied
was vacant. Duty had called to fighting field
or to the hospital ox* the munitions plant. There
was an air of deep seriousness everywhere, but
we wonder if this district ever spent a happier
Christmas,
heed her
lasts and
, Duty speaks sternly but those who
call are not strangers to a joy that
is satisfying.* *
1944
and wise of heart, nineteen
cross his threshold. For one
Allied victory will
*ft
of faceStern
forty-four bids us
tiling, the war is not won.
come only at a cost that none of us dare reckon.
Toil, sweat and tears cannot but be our lot.
Strikes loom dark and menacing. Social and
political uneasiness threaten the toil and sacri
fices of a thousand years. Merchants’ shelves
are becoming barer. Black-marketing^ in newer
forms and in unlooked for places is bringing the
disaster of inflation nearer every hour.
The need of the hour? Christian character
manifest in every field and workshop and office
and home and fireside, alone will save the day.
Personal religion, the family altar, the well-
attended church and Sunday School, the read
ing of good books, the revival of the home to
gether with the serious pursuit of practical
knowledge faithfully applied in the daily life
will save the day. Nothing less will avail. Let
us recognize these fundamentals and apply them
with all our might, if we would not see our
empire numbered with Nineveh and Tyre.
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« That Secret Weapon
Germany has threatened the destruction
Britain by the use of a secret weapon. Well,
she tried to destroy England before by the use
of a secret weapon. On that occasion the wea
pon was deceit. She aimed to deceive Britain
and she came perilously near destroying her.
What weapon, if any, she has in mind just now
we do not know, at least the most of us are un
aware by what means the enemy of all that is
good will employ in her next effort of destroy
ing her best friend. This time we are warned
that Germany is fuller than ever of her wicked
ness and we are warned. The sailors and sol
diers and airmen and statesmen who head up
the work of the allies are not napping just now.
.They hadn’t bettex* be or else—
What we most fear is tile enemy in our
niidst who tempts us in any way to lag at our
.job. We refer to any man or body of men who
would have us fight another when we should be
fighting the enemy thundering on our gates.
The man or body of men who yells “Stop,
thief!” every time he sees any man or any body
of men achieving success at his job is an enemy
within our gates. The men or body of men that
Tail to help the worker is a secret enemy. Any
one who restrains the well directed enthusiasm
of youth instead of helping the worker to do
better is a secret enemy. Stalin saw this as the
Germans cast their greedy, yellow eyes towards
his land and got rid of the secret enemy within
the borders of Russia. The result was that when
the German filthy hordes burst in fury on his
land there was no fifth columnist to be dealt
with. His methods were severe, but they prov
ed effective. Has the time come for Canada
to do some eyerubbing in this regard? We now
see the history of allied toleration written in
blood to be read by the graves of martyrs in
the light of burning homes and business places.
What are we going to do about this secret wea
pon that is threatening our very national exist
ence? If lively stepping is not done in this mat
ter, who is so wise as to say what may take
place in this good, land within the
years? We simply raise the question,
estly point out a danger every hour
more dire*
,5C’
of
next five
We earn-
becoming
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It Is Up to You ant! Me
Wc are hearing a great deal of conferences
of one sort end another; Reports of large insth
tutions and of business houses ate giving an ac
count of their business year and of their plans
for coming days, Municipal bodies are telling
of what they accomplished for the common weal.
The air is electric with talk about the invasion
of 'TMw Is nil fri fhr» dTtod.
assures US that the world is awake and alert to
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what is needed and eager to know what advance
has been made in its interests. Seme folk -fpl*
lew the good old custom of making New Year’s
resolutions. We may smile good naturedly at
this fine old custom, yet were folk not to resolve
for betterment, the race soon would be on the
way to the rust and dust of departed ages. We
may, threfore, be pardoned if we mention just
one thing that we regard as highly important at
this juncture. It is this. If the world is to be
kept moving upward into light, it is up to you
and me and to plain folk precisely, like us
though differing from us in experience and light
and education. The crowd is made up of separ
ate folks, each with his talent and his capacity
to serve and to work and to win. This is not
a new fact just come to birth, but it is a fact
that is supremely in need of rediscovery and
earnest application. The lark’s birdlets needed
to learn this fact if their snug home was not to
become their tomb. Stanley Baldwin and Rain-
say MacDonald and Chamberlain failed to act
on this prosaic principle and the world is de
luged with blood in consequence, Mr. Churchill
recognized this principle and the race was rallied
in the fight for freedom. The gallant youth of
Britain and of Canada have acted on this prin
ciple and freedom is being preserved as our heri
tage. Harry Lauder on Christinas Day said hil
ariously and victoriously as he spoke from the
shipbuilders works on the banks of the Clyde
to the warriors and seamen of the world, /Keep
on with your work, We’ll supply the ships.
We’ll see to that,” It’s up to you and me and
to plain folk like us to produce food, to xnake
machines and tools, to keep the children in
school and the churches open and the home
bright and the lives around us strong. If you
and I don’t do this job, and the like of us prove
recreant, who will do the work? But you and I
are out on the right of way, and please God,
we’ll see the end of the war with honor perch
ing on our banners.* * * *
The Weather
That was a deeply interesting conference
held in the Chateau Laurier last week. The
object of the meeting was the discussion of the
food situation. Statesmen and the soundest sort
of business men met there from Britain and
from all parts of the Dominion. The food situ
ation was discussed from every possible angle
till, finally, the delegates came to one element
in the situation that quite baffled them. “All
depends on the weather,’’ they concluded. And
there you are with a vengeance. Some brilliant
folk will tell you that if we breed a certain
type of hog or horned beast or poultry and cul
tivate the soil in this or that fashion, that full
bins and prosperity will be the country’s por
tion. The conference referred to came to no
such conclusion. “It all depends on the wea
ther,” they decided. This conclusion tells the
story in a very few words. There’s no joking
about it. If the season be not favorable good
crops simply will not be had.
A Bit of Fine Work
All Canada sympathizes with General Mac-
Naughton in his enforced retirement from the
leadership of the Canadian armies, the cause
of retirement being illness. “No finer Canadian
gentleman ever set foot in England,” is the com
ment made in this connection by a reliable Brit
ish broadcaster. All manner of rumours Were
afoot on the General’s retirement but the simple
fact is that the general gave himself so freely
to his great task that he exhausted his powers and
only a period of rest and recuperation under
wise guidance will restore him physically to the
work for which be is pre-eminently fitted. He
has the hearty wishes of a grateful country for
his complete recovery to work and happiness.
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Why Not Here in Ontario?
We have read only this week of the indes
cribably effective work of the British engineers
in the middle east. Deserts have been reclaimed
to high productiveness. Malarious swamps have
been drained and the soil so drained set to
growing abundance of food. Rivers and streams
that tumbled tumultuosly in idleness and use
lessness, have been harnessed and set to driving
turbines or to irrigation lands hitherto barren.
Railroads have been built and whole countries
reconstructed. Why should not the govern
ments provincial, county and federal look strictly
aftei’ huge areas under the shadows of the best
markets and have them drained? At present
they are waterlogged in the spring till it is too
late for planting or for sowing, thus killing bac
terial life essential for crop production.
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Note and Comment
CANADIAN All) TO RUSSIA FUND
”For Russia and Humanity’’
on the
hearts
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away as Cairo. The new service will
be based at Ottawa, span the Atlan
tic and relay it from Britain. MevH"
to men in Italy and the middle East
had been running as much as two
months behind.
herExeter sympathizes with Mitchell in
very heavy loss from fire.
Did you notice the deeply religious tone
of many of the addresses broadcast during the
Christmas season?
•» * * * *
Colonel Ralston tells us that the most we
may look for for the ending of the war next
year is a strong hope.
» * * *
Wc are glad that we have so much wheat
in storage. What is that old saying, “It takes
a steady hand to cary a full dish/’
* $ * *
For years We wondered how the war would
end. This Christmas we wondered when the war
would end, There is a
it*
*
»}*•
difference and we like
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President Roosevelt
States railroads. We regret the necessity, but
liberty consists its doing the reasonable thing
and not in following every wild impulse that
may corrie into One’s head.
*
has seized the United
battle
The
Capital squibs; A loud-speaking
system installed at the Ottawa Union
Station will announce train times,
tracks, etc.; badly needed where
for
Up until December 31st, the clti-
; zens of Ontario are urged to par
ticipate in a clothing “blit?” for the
people in the devastated areas of
the Soviet Union,
The drive is being conducted by
the Ontario clothing division of the
Canadian Aid to Russia Fund, of
which Mr. Jack Creed is chairman.
This summer's offensive
Russian front has lifted the
of all th a Allied peoples.
Last year at this time, fhe
fox’ Stalingrad was raging,
Nazis had, turned on that heroic city
the full fury of their military ma
chine. Daily we city was pounded1 huge throngs always gather
by bombs from thousands of planes, J trains . . . Opened last July, the
’and by thousands of tanks and guns, i Women’s Active Service Club can-
'The defenders of Stalingrad foughtHeen has served 50,329 service girls
house, by house, with their backs to ’ already, the committee reports . , ,
the river, I The guy is physic: T. G. Lewis, a
They won Stalingrad and with carbon and ribbon co. president here
this they have won an abiding place found a book of raffle tickets in his
in the hearts of freedom-loving desk sent by a friend in Woodstock,
people. They turned the tide of war; decided to send along $5, and won
They-have thus saved' himself a model home valued at
In defending $4,000 , . , Famous negro band lead
er “Cab” Calloway played Ottawa
in our favor,
many Canadian lives.
Stalingrad, the Soviet men and
women defended England, Canada, Dut wanted to see it from a taxi-cab
and all of the United Nations. < • > save the cabbie $15.35 for a
This summer, the Soviet armies ■ $10.35 fare, made the headlines . , ,
hurled the Nazies beyond the Dneiper J Thieves who stole Public Works
and have taken the heaviest toll of Minister Fournier’s automobile used
the enemy’s manpower and equip- j
ment. Russia's mighty offensive,
linked with Anglo-American opera
tions in the west, has opened the
way (o an early Allied victory and
the birth of peace for mankind.
The Soviet people have more than
earned our -gratitude. They have
paid and are contimiing to pay an
extremely heavy price for our com
mon victory. Millions have lost their
homes, Every Russian family has
suffered loss in life and property.
The devastation in that country is'
beyond description. x._
Canadians will not want to stand j. . , repairs for farm machinery are
aside and permit the Russians to'
bear these burdens unaided. Cana-1
dians have demonstrated that they!
want to share the war with the
Russian people.
They can do this by contributing
warm clothing for the people in the
(liberated areas. The need for cloth
ing in Russia is beyond ordinary
measurement. It is estimated that
more than 30,000,'000 persons will
need heli) in the areas now being
liberated from Nazi occupation. The
devastation in these centres is so
great that all that governments and
voluntary agencies might send will
not be enough. The Nazis have liter
ally torn the clothing from the
backs
burned
The
Allied
special
Canadians, too, will want to help.
In his appeal, Mr. Creed expressed
the hope that business firms, schools,
churches, trade unions, fraternal so
cieties, professional and other groups
will help to pile high the bales of
clothing for shipment to
Union.
Through his splendid
tion, Mr. Creed is able to
and ship the clothing as
It comes in. They are transported
on Soviet boats through waters rela
tively safe from enemy attack.
The C.P.R. and C.N.R. are co
operating. They have offered to
carry, free of charge, bundles ad
dressed to the Clothing Division,
Canadian Aid to Russian Fund, at
918 St, Clair Ave. W., Toronto, Ont.
Such bundles will be carried by the
railways free of freight also from
the martime provinces and Quebec,
to the fund’s warehouse in Toronto.
it to carry stolen goods in two break-
ins, got caught . . , Army here re-
i ports Victory Loan subscriptions at
Kiska in the Aleutians went over the
$250,0(0'0 mark and that a French-
Canadian regiment there broke all
Army records, signing 10 0% of per
sonnel for more than 200% of quota.<
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Prices Board rulings you should
know: Christmas and New Years
dinners in cafes and hotels cannot
be increased in price for the same
type of meal as on an ordinary day
meatless Tuesday now goes
than applying only
users,” it is extended to
who supplies meals or re-
to
of th# Russian peole and
their homes to the ground.
British, American and other
peoples are now conducting
drives for aid to Russia.
not rationed . . . There is no ceiling
on grower sales to the trade on
clover and alfalfa seed the grower
being free to get best price accord
ing to quality of product . . . Amend
ment to
farther
“quota
“anyone
freshments for other than his per
sonal or household consumption . . .
Imitation spices, replacing pure var
ieties in short supply owing to the
war, have been brought under price
ceiling . . . Plans between the Board
and manufacturers will probably in
crease-production of shoes for child
ren by at least
1944.
a million pairs for
***
a summary of the
objectives
is
production
drafted by the Domi-
Smiles
Of interest
agricultural
for 1944, as
nion-Provincial conference held at
Ottawa recently. They contemplate
jip change in wheat over the 17$
million acres of 1943. Coarse grains
will be up 6 % in oats, 1% in barley.
Rye remains the same, but husking
corn figures show an increase of
53%. No change in hay and clover,
nearly 10 million acres. Rye, down
half a million, pr 13%. In the oil
seed crop^* flaxseed down 36%;
sunflower seed, 50,0 00 acres up by
72%. All tobaccos have an increased
objective, highest being hurley, 53%.
In the dairy products they figure no
change in the total mjlk; creamery
butter down >3%, also cheese 7%.
Eggs and poultry meats will have
an upward trend. Fyuits^are all up,
apples showing 24% with* 15 million
bushels and leafy green vegetables
increased 39%. Maple syrup, over
3 million gallons, is upped 31%; and
honey will he asked to give more
volume.
sheep wool
3%.
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A little highlight on mutual aid
for 1943-44 fiscal year for which
Canada has agreements with the
U.K., New Zealand. India, Russia
and China—and soon with the
French Committe of National Lib
eration and the British West Indies.
Canada will deal direct with all
her allies, sending without charge
Canadian food and munitions for
which they have made commitments
beyond their ability to pay.
ever in the
dom, cost
troops in
credited to
count in Canada,
automotive vehicles
under mutual aid which will have
any salvage value, may be returned
to us after the
How-
case of the United King-
of servicing Canadian
Britain
Britain’s
and Italy is
mutual aid ac-
Shjps, planes,
and munitions,
war.
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64,00 Girl Guides
With 14 million pounds,
is asked to increase by
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overseas are certainly
their return to civilian
The study courses offered by
Canadian Legion Educational
Canucks
thinking of
life,
the
Services have had an enrolment of
35,338 men, with more than a thou
sand a month currently signing up.
They take everything from automo
tive engineering, deisel engineering,
to bookkeeping, welding, physics and
social studies. The courses were
first offered in 194«0> and have been
extremely popular with our boys.
can get ithe book by writing
Consumer Branch, Wartime
and Trade Board, Ottawa,
on yellow paper, this pam-
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Any woman who has looked with
despair on her dowdy, old-fashioned
wardrobe and wished she knew what
to do with it, needs the inspiration
of the “Re-make Wrinkle” handbook.
Anyone
to the
Prices
Printed
phlet contains all kinds of sugges
tions for re-making different types
of garments. Principally concerned
with cutting grown-ups clothes down
for children, the book also features
ideas for the adult wardrobe.
* * *
The R.C.A.F. after training fif
teen complete crews for the work,
is about,ready to start its new air
mail service covering 9,000 miles,
bringing mail in quick order to your
soldiers, sailors and airmen as far
■More than
throughout Canada are contributing
to the national war effort in many
ways, besides carrying on their regu
lar peacetime activities . . . It is
estimated that members and friends
of the Navy League use about
610,000 pounds of wool a year in
making things which go, with loving
care, into ditty bags.
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to farmers: E. S.Of interest
Archibald, director of the Expert*
mental Farm Service, says that pro
ducers of Canada’s foodstuffs are
paying income taxes in small num
bers, not of their own choice but
for the simple reason that earning
power in labor income on the aver
age farm, even with the free labor
of wife and children thrown in, is
little more than that which industry
and Governments pay to a Grade 1
stenographer . . . During the fiscal
year 19 42-43, there
cheese factories in (
received a premium i
having manufactured
9 3 points or higher .
legumes are relatively high in pro
tein and low in sugar, a factor
which adds to the difficulties
making them into good silage .
The supply of potash available
fertilizer purposes in Canada
were 1,197
Canada which
on account of
cheese scoring
. . Grasses and
of
for
in
19 44 will not exceed 35,000 tons,
which is about 80% of that used
in 1943, and demand will be up;
so rationing is in effect so
more farmers will get their
share; this will not affect the
tonnage of fertilizers available
Wholesale prices for Canadian
products moved up gradually in No
vember to reach a peak level
(index) of 104.5, compared with
103.8 a month earlier.
that
fail’
total
farm
organiza-
sort, pack
quickly as
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South African insurance afeent
out a collection letter to a
He received the following
some practice.”
the Soviet
Phone 31w
is to use
i ‘ S..™. .....
to use a gun ,. .
Young Mother: “What
world do you want to buy a crib
with such high sides for?” Young
Father: “Well, then it’ll be easier
to hear him when he falls out."
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Life isn’t fair to men. When they
are born, their mothers get the com
pliments and flowers when they get
married, their brides get the pres
ents and publicity; when they
their widows get the insurance
the winters in California.
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The bright young thing came
the room and smiled at her mother.
"Mother,” she said, *T must have
some money for a new dress. Will
you ask daddv for it?”
“Ask him yourself, dear,” was mo
ther's reply, “You are getting mar*
ried in a month’s time and you must
have
A
sent
client,
reply: “Dear Sir: I have your col
lection letter of last April and would
taka this opportunity to explain that
it is my custom to place the names
of all my creditors in a hat and
draw one out each month to be
paid. I beg to advise y^ou that if
I have any futrher letters of this j
nature from you, I shall take steps
to see that your name is not even'
•put in the hat/’
It s agin the law
The best way
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