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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1945-02-08, Page 5THE TIMES-MJYQCATE, EXETER ONTARIO* TBUWAY MOOING, FEBRUARY Si, IMS MONEY TO LOAN on First Mortgages Now is the TJIjflB to stop paying rent paid to Write us if you have been thinking about it. We may be apje to help you with a 10^1*^ All inquiries treated confidentially, Huron&Erie MORTGAGE GPRP9RAT19N London Windsor St, ' Thomas Chatham To End Rural ’Phone Pastime By Orlo Miller, London ^re© Rrqss •I- “Hitch - hiking” plqctropg may bring p pew telephone service to rural subscribers |p the post-wav yearft at a cost’ ag low as 7? epnts a month and PPt an end forever to that populai* country pastime pf “listening in” on the multiple rur al telephone line. Inaugurated by the big telephone companies In an attempt to bolster their rural business which has slip ped' by 35 per cent in the last two decapes, research respiting in th® development of what is called rural carrier phone. Simply, the device is an electron ic instrument which can tranmit electrictelephone messages over power lines in rural areas. A modi fied radio transmitter starts the message on its way, but instead of being broadcast into space as in radio, the tiny electrical impulses are superimposed on the current flowing through power lines. Arriving at their destination, the “deadrhead” electrons making up the message take a running jump from the “host” power line to the home receiving installation, cover ing as much qs 50 yards without the benefit of transportation other tha^ ZU® ‘Mr itself. In practical use how.eyp'r, it is propahl® tha.t there ' will be a vrire from th® subscribers phone to the power line. T|ie receiver is a spiall vacuum tube set, somewhat resembling a portable radio, on top of ^vhich sRs an ordinary telephone receiver. The electronic impulses are picked up by t$e tubes and amplified for re- ■ceptlon. in the earphone. Each message has only one destination, so Mrs. Caleb Jones down the road won’t be able to learn what’s going on at the Smith’s by picking up her ■receiver and “listening in.” The research people themselves anticipate that the service can. be supplied eventually for as little as 75 cents monthly, but other sources1 estimate the cost at something like $35 per year, which would make the device prohibitive for many farmqps. However, final research and de sign are not yet completed, having been halted by the entry of the United S.tates into the war, and it is difficult to arrive at any accur ate estimate of the probable cost. Tests with, the principle have been successful and perfection of oper ation may quite conceivably bring the rural carrier phone into com mon use following My very best wishes to you, Creech, and the Committee and citizens of Kxeter and district the New Year.—Yours sincerely, John A. Falconbridge, Capt. $ * Mr. the for Dear Sir:—At' this time I wish to express my appreciation for the wonderful Christmas box which you and your committee sent to me, It couldn't have, come at a better time—it was Christmas Day. On the same day X also received a box from, mother and in it was a copy of the Times-Advocate, I cor* tainly was sorry to 4®ar that Hilton Sanders was killed, I don’t know the circumstance which surrounds It but it certainly was a hard fight. Two days later X was wounded my self; also Jack Sweet, War is a terrible thing and we hope and pray that it sopn Shall be over so that we may gq home to our rela tives and friends once more.— Charles Cox. builders, these the mail comes in passed around like bags of parcels in Bray Chick Hatchery Exeter? 2^’ so busy that every chance Z got was spent ip sleeping. Since I laud'’ ed overseas J have only seen one hoy from Kxeter, Curly Davis. While I was in Gent, Belgium, on a forty-eight hour leave X met him coming out of the mess hall1. We did not talk very long; he told me that Roy Raynham v/as In his regiment. I wish I could write you a longer letter but I hear the ser geant hollering to pack up so will have to cut it short. settled I will write —Harold Elliott. * ♦ Pear Sir:—-I wish Exeter District War Time Commit1’ tee for the very nice parcel which I received just before Christmas, I a long way and seen a last wrote. We came to the beaches on D-day plus eight and have been in Belgium and Holland since, I have had a chance to see most of the places such as Paris, Brus sels, Antwerp and Eindhoven, It has ajl been very nice but becomes very boring after seven months of continual in strange countries. The have been, very good to us even near the German border and that helps a lot when yop are up^ on the front. Our Christmas over here was very nice considering the cir cumstances they have to work un der. But with the parcels we made out very well, I have to get back on duty in a few minutes but before I do I wish to thank the Committee again for the parcel, — Gordon Baynbam. the drive from Casslno. to Rome. Then the authorities decided Z was too old to remain up front for th® winter campaign (at the time I was the oldest chaplain with a combat unit), ,a.nd so they trans ferred me to hospital wprk where I would have a few ww living; comforts, This is a busy place and X meet lots of men. Please, give my good wishes to all friends in apd around Exeter. Agajn —P. C. Hill. » * * Pear Friends:—J swell parcel yesterday and it cer- tajnly was grand. If you the way a fellow’s face when his name is called parcel, you could well much if is appreciated, I rest of my crew should thank you also, as they had half the cake eaten before I had a leak at the rest of the thmgs. We all share opr parcels so I didn't mind. One chap got a box of copkies and the same thing happened. He wrote home, Mum, I am so we we woke blankets were covered with snow. Sort of .makes a guy wish he had his “Red Flannels” on. That was ihe first snow I had seen over here, but can’t say as I particularly en-1 joyed it.'It doesn’t seem very long when I was reading the let- in the Exeter paper, that the over here had written when received a parcel from you "That them, home never * * * Dear Sil11.—A few Hues t® let you know I received the parcel •from your Exeter Distrip^ War tipie Committee, If arrived Ju pprr feef. condition and certainly was appreciate]^ When a f.oll°w receives p little hit qf Canada, it makes hipi feel a lot better. All items ip the parcel ar® ypry practicable and. arrive# at jjust about th® right time—,especially fh® sweater, which is preying very useful these, cold' , _______ days. We are just getting over a(a parcels, from yppr organization, light snowfall. The English papers ),and would like to express my xy , “• thanks to all coneeTned, The par cel was though England contents pud I do hope that we ar® all home soon to thank you an# your com mittee personally. The weather has been terrible lately, and we have been doing very little flying. At. present a flock of birds are walk ing across the drome in tight for mation so that means that flying IS scrubbed again today. I have been fortunate enough to meet up with some Exeter chaps. When I was last in Lpndpn I met Bob Din- ney and Stew Fpke, so it was great to talk to someone from home. Nineteen forty-five made a very quite appearance last night, but let us pray that it sees us all re united to our homes and friends. Again I would like to thank you all for the very lovely parcel and wish you a happy and better New Year.—-Glenn McTavish, %•!< Dear Sir:—Yesterday I received * When w® sot a longer ope. thanking you. * to thapk the received your Christmas from them have gone lot Since I cpuia see lights an out for a see how think the write and Anglican Church apd took an acr tive part in both church and Red Cross work, Surviving are her hps- band and one son, Maurice, ’gt home, private funeral services were conducted Tuesday by Rev. Mr. Co,ok, Granton. Interment was in Prospect ZXilJ 'Cemetery, worked themselves up Into (juRe a lather about it—displaying pictures of children, playing jp th® snow, skaters on the ice, etc. It can’t beat the good ql$ Canadian- snow, though. By this time next winter, 1 certainly hope to be home helping my little daughter build shovelling snow off my and all other chores a brings. Things are pretty « routine around here. I time away by going to (shows to those in Canada), play ing cards With the hoys at this HQ, mending socks, clothes etc. 'I have a 9-day leave comipg up next month, though it was actually due this month, but I put it off, having no place to go to. Having no relatives over here leaves a fel low at loose ends, so I may just stay put at this TIQ instead of tak ing the leave. I’m more interested in getting child ovei- long, now, parcel, your committee Year, and hoping I’ll be able to j express soon, I Fisher, in quite good shape, al- it followed me all over and I must say that its were greatly appreciated, snowmen, sidewalk, snow-fall quiet and pass the ■ cinemas it also six or moving people “Thanks for the cookies, I enjoyed the one I had,” on field training at present, are sleeping outdoors. When Up this morning our REATHEw [that COLDAWAY S0sa ■Once again I owe you a debt of gratitude for the splendid parcel which reached me a few day^ ago, It was somewhat delayed due to my change of ad- dress. Many, many thanks for your kind remembrance. I am sure that no pne of all your lads to whom you sent parcels, will appreciate the gift and the kind thought and Planning and work behind it more than I! Although time flies at an incred ibly high velocity, it dpeg seem U lopgish1 time since the interested citizens of Exeter and district formed the Wartime Committee. ■Many af that time realized that the (ask which lay before US Would require a long time to ac complish. Solely at tjie moment, I ■ am thipkin^ pf yopr committee’s faithfulness In that task to pg whp are on the war fronts. It is not quite so easy to continue in a work that requires sustained interest and hopeful patience, as it is to. begin it. So, I do so much recog- nize and express my gratitude for your remembrance of one who was not a son hut & neighbor to begin with. Great morale parcels! When the word is wildfire. “Fifty-seven today-” someone calls out in pass ing. j} Presently, from the “quarters” lorry comes a soldier with one un der each arm. “Boy, did I hit the jack-pot!” he beams, “guess we eat tonight.” There is a thought in every sol dier’s mind, “Wonder if there is one for me?” All year we look for letters, but at Christmas it is a little different. What a delight it is too, to see things that are Canadian! It seems quite the normal thing now to pick up an Italian magazine to read. But when it compg to shopping it is a Thp been live look we find rooms without part of a wall or ceiling blown out—or in. The shops have been stripped; what Jerry has not carried away the inhabitants have buried. We have a little money ip our pockets but no place to spend it. Tn Flor ence the shops—those still intact —had a multitude of beautiful and interesting articles for sale—but at what prices! Quite beyond our reach in most cases — or many times higher than —inflation or depreciation lira taken into account. But we cannot go to Florence every day—nbr even every month —while the towns we live in have nothing. So apart from Army issue there are no homey things except those which come in parcels. I want to be sure that you know that we are grateful for all your efforts. Here, strength ■of the every mined roads and bridges, booby- traps, swollen rivers and ditches, blown bridges and dykes, creating so great problems of supply and transport, treacherous civilians and paratroops that drop in the night. No newspaper at home ought to be misleading on that score. These conditions, however, speak for the gallantry of our Canadian soldiers who go into the attacks. A price is being paid for Freedom, which I shall not attempt to evaluate; some of your who have cost. We worth the continue. To pass through hundreds of miles of Italian territory would be a Startling experience. By this time the destruction is so common a sight that the ruined house is normal. We are quite accustomed to seeing ruined towns and village®, destroyed schools and churches and all manner disrupted railways, ed fields, in bleak tempo of feel pity children Who, had not asked upon the Iplian scene, ahd sparing a thought for it, we exclaim, “How thankful we are that the battle lias not passed over Canada!” The destruction is not by any means complete—far from it! But the damage is so general, apart from Rome, as to create an impres sion of a very Sad stat® of affairs for any who are interested. Nevertheless, our morale Is high and otir spirits elevated, in spit® of many factors named and un- mentioned, which tend to dampen them. Your work and perseverence and encouragement on the home front are indispensable to Victory’s achievement, Tour Xmas thoughts are a imtt greatly appreciated, of the pattern for Victory, ■s somewhat different situation, towns we pass through have badly damaged, the towns we in are the same. When we for billets, we are lucky if if not, pre-war of the I in the years immediately this war. we are well aware of the of the German army and difficulties encountered in fraction of a mile—mud, * Si Si i|:'‘ Creech:—I must apolo- delay in acknowledging home to my wife and worrying about leaves Let’s hope it won’t be this covers things for than here. Well, and thanks again for your Best regards, and wishing a successful New my .thunks in person am—Sincerely yours, J. C. very Bdr. * * Friends:—Again on Friday * -V Dear last I was happy to receive a parcel from the Exeter War Time Com mittee. In the three years I have been oversea^ I have receivd a large number of parcels from Exe ter and am happy to say they have all arrived in the best of condition, and I am sure that none of us boys shall ever forget in . the years that are ahead of us, the work that you are doing for us, in these long months that vye have been away from you all. We spent Christmas in the lines. We expected to be out for New Years but came back in yesterday, New Year’s Day. This year in Italy has seen many a hard battle and a large number of the boys that left Canada with the Perth’s in 1941. have paid the suprem’e sacrifice I have, been very lucky to receive the Exeter Times to see the news around home and I am hoping that I will land home this year. Algain and all for your W. Ballantyne. thanking you one Christmas parcel. “I am breaking boastful “Well, right key, then to break in,” never happy unless I into one. why song,” said am the thedon’t you get you wouldn’t need said the bored one. ••• V pnnitoner MODERN, will. CONDUCTED CONVENIENTLY* LOCATED NOTH A WHOLE DAU JIWSEEIHG WITHIN WALKING BOTAHCE SLAKE YOUR HOftfl HOTEL WADINA AVB. al COtLEGM AT. RATES Cntk;. 11.80 - 53.50 DaWi: 11.80 -17.00 WRITK FOR FOLDIln Many women have to do their own housework, and the constant bend ing over,. lifting1, making beds, sweeping, ironing, sewing, so neces sary to perform their household duties puts a heavy strain on the back and kidneys, and if there were no kidney weakness the buck would be strong and well. Doan’s Kidney Rills help to give relief to weak, backache, kidney suf fering women, Doan’s Kidney Bills are put Up in an obiong grey box with our trad® mark a 1‘Maple Leaf” on the wrapper. Don’t accept a substitute, euro and get ”Doan’s.” 5,’ho T, Milburn Co,, Ltd,, Toronto, Ont. He citizens will know shared in the greatest conclude that victory is price, else we should not of public buildings, public utilities, useless fallen power lines, flood- pathetic refugees camped fields, for whom in the war we have no tijne to except for innocent like their parents, for it! But looking * Dear Sirs:—Received your par cel just before Christmas, and the well chosen contents helped my self and several friends to celebrate this holiday in ' a fitting manner. This parcel was truly appreciated and X would like to compliment the ladies of the Society on the good -work they are doing for the boys overseas. It is comforting to know that we who have been away for so long are yet remembered by the friends we left behind. The boys of the unit managed to enjoy themselves during the festive sea son, but for myself it was difficult to forget I was far from the home fireside and the old familiar places. Christmas dinner was served in traditional army style with tlie officers attending the wants* of the men. It is indeed a pleasure to have Captains, Majors and even Colonels dish up the grub, and I am strongly in favor of celebrating Christmas more often it only for this^ reason. One of the boy,s from the office and myself decided to see the old year out and the new year in in Rome. We had promised ourselves that and planned it for some time ahead. Luck was with us and we managed to make the trip by air through the generosity of the U.S. Army Air Force. We also had an air view of ground where some outstanding battles had taken place. The sights of Rome are something wonderful to see; they are too much in detail to go into but the outstanding of them all was the tour through St. Peter’s Cathedral and most histor ical things of any importance was pointed out to us with the story behind panted visited ancient so in the intend to there in now and for th® pai’cei coiVed.^I-Iairvey ❖ it by the guide that accom- us on the tour. We also other places in old Rome, Rome and modern Rome very near future I fully Spend a seVen-day leave the city, again 1*11 sign off my many thanks Which I , have re- Pfaff. 4 ago tors boys they people. I thought to myself, really must knowin; were 1 be nice for g that the folks at thinking of them,” (Continued on page 7) Dear -Mr. gize for my the fine parcel sent me by the Exeter District War Time Commit tee. Ten days ago I had to make a trip across the mountains. The snows came, and I have only just gpt back. Let me congratulate your Committee on the selection of ar ticles in the parcel. I doubt if it could be improved. As for myself, I was in action at Ortono and in EDWARD DINSMORE IN GRANTON Mrs. Edward Dinsmore, lifelong resident of Blddulph Township, died in Granton, in her 79th year. She was a member of St. Thomas MRS. DIES thank # $ $ Dear F'riends:—I wish to you for the lovely parcel which I have received. I intended writing this letter before but we have been FUTURE AS WE WILE We Canadians are democrats. Adolf Hitler would never have had a chance in our country. The Fuehrer ranted and roared his way to leadership. His beer-parlour oratory impressed his countrymen ... they were ready to be swayed, eager to be convinced. Here was a dictator’s opportunity. We Canadians don’t do things that way. We don’t like being led by the nose. We want to think for ourselves. We want to do things in our own way ... to plan our future as we will. This is the way we have built Canada into the great nation she is today. From a primitive land, uninhabited but for a few tribes of Indians, Canada — in a short 300 years — has grown from a terra incognita to one of the greatest trading nations of die world. This has come to pass through the vision and pioneering spirit of our forefathers, through their determination, enterprise, self- reliance, and the deep-rooted knowledge that only through hard work, intelligently applied, can anything worthwhile be built. We have made our war effort in the same way, contributing in the struggle of the United Nations to a degree that has amazed every one — Hitler included. We are well into our stride in putting this war assignment over, and when Victory comes, we will face the problems of peace with the same determination to do things in our own way. We have not reached our present place in the scheme of things without mistakes, and we will probably make mistakes in the future. But, as in the past, so in the future, we will profit by our errors . . . building sanely and steadily by individual determination and self-reliance to make life a strong and worthwhile thing, * ♦ » JI his message is pxbfisbed as ast expression a} faith in the future of Canada by the Bank of Montreal, which has been working with Canadians in all walks of Hie since 1817. y