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Letters to the War Time Board
Dear Sir:—The very nice parcel
sent by your committee caught up
with me a few days ago. jAs we are
moving often to keep up with
Jerry, it means that we must look
after our correspondence whenever
opportunity affords. The newspap
ers will likely have informed you
by this time that we are in north
west. Europe. Exactly where, you
will have to guess. At any rate
living conditions are very much
than they were in Italy.better
None of us was sorry to leave
Anything you may have read about
Italy is likely only half as bad as
it is really. Everything about this
part of the world, .hygiene, housing,
people, etc., is in such notable con
trast that we never -cease to reman*,
on it. The people are very friendly
and kind, without giving’ the im
pression Which one always received
in Italy, .that they were -preparing
to beg or steal something. When
one enters -Germany, however, there
is no contact with the people what
ever. The destruction of German
towns arouses no pity in those who
have been hardened my continual
exposure to it. After seeing what
bombs and rockets have done to
English cities and other on the
continent (and hearing them chug
over your head night after night
and wondering . . .) the smashing
of German cities, it is hoped, will
be a salutary lesson. Here the
houses are more like Canadian town
and city houses. than they are in
Italy or even in England (pardon
the comparison!). So that wnea
one has time or occasion to roam
around the streets of a city out
of which the Germans were driven
a few hours ’before, one is struck
by the thought, ‘"This is what
London (Ont.) would look like un
der similar circumstances!” It is
a sobering experience to walk thru
street after street, not a person in
sight except a few soldiers and the
military police oil patrol, not <x
single house or building that has
not ;been destroyed or damaged.
FOR. PIPE OR
ROLLING YOUR OWN
Trolley wires down and trams on
their sides, barricades blocking the
streets, shutters hanging crazily
from smashed windows, a torn cur
tain waving sadly to those in other
windows, a thin finger, all that is
left of the great church tower, still
pointing to the peaceful blue sky.
All around is a ghostly silence;
not the silence of the woods, for
there is no twittering of birds; it
is the silence of the tomb. "Where
are the .people,” I ask myself, "the
fathers, the mothers, the babies and
the aged and infirm?” Of course,
they fled the city. Now we see them
making their painful and tragic
way "home.” There will be much
work to do, and more helpers when
the slaves come* -back from Ger
many. Where a village has been
resurrected, the people, especially
the school children, line the streets
and cheer and shout no end. Every
one has >a friendly greeting, small
boys make -the "V” sign, their
arms aloft, the red, "white and blue
banners of tremendous size float
from every house; many have or
ange streamers flying a-bove them,
the older -people wear orange rib
bons in their lapels; the girls have
large orange ribbons in their hai..
They are wild with excitement. I
turn to the office^' who is riding
in my -car, "Bill, do you realize
that these people were liberated
yesterday after five years of the
Germans?” "Gee,” he says, "that's
right!” Germany has succeeded in
ridding herself of any friends She
may have had; she has engendered
hate for herself in the hearts of
millions of people; when there is
not hate there is at least contempt.
What a task it will be mending it
all! And the greatest difficulty
facing ns is that we can hot for
generations to come trust Germany
again. We here who speak to the
people, know how they feel about
it. Language is no limitation to
understanding; we manage too well
for that. We can see that Germany’s
achievement is at least this: that
she has made the word "German
a vile smell in the world. We often
remark that destruction of build
ings how seems the normal thing
for us to see: suffice it to say that
unless you have "been” and "seen”
you -cannot imagine how lucky you
are that this evidence
not touched Canada,
calls and I must swat
erial for tomorrow’s
sheet, published every day, regard
less of what happens. With all good
wishes to friends ih Exeter -and
district—and thanks very, very
much
that
Sone
from
your ... . cerely, John A. Falconbridge.
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of war has
Now, duty
up the mat
daily news-
again for the Parcel. I
Some of my mail .must
astray during the long
North' Italy, but I'm
parcel did not.—Yours
Dear Mr. Creech:—Last week 1
had the pleasure of receiving an
other or those excellent .boxes sent
to us by your people back home. It
was a very nice box full of useful
and welcome articles. I have been
over here some time now and have
seen quite a bit of England and
also had a month in Ireland. I
have been fortunate in seeing quite
a number of hoys from Exeter—
Glen McTavish, Austin Fahrnei
and Ray Pryde. Bob Dinney, How
ard Klumpp and I Were on leave
together. We had a grand Exeter
reunion. I hope that» you
Mrs. Creech are both well and
and Mrs. Creech are both well ana
expect that you have traded the
snow shovel for the lawn mower
by now. It will soon be time to go
golfing again. I went golfing over
here last year a couple of times
and will soon have Hto try it again.
Thanks once again' to the Exeter
Committee for sending out such;
well chosen parcels. I know how
much they are appreciated.—Sin
cerely, - Stewart Fuke.
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Deal* Sirs:—I am not in the moon
for writing letters but I feel that
this letter is a "must” to say
thanks for the parcel the thought
ful people Of Exeter sent to me,
and which arrived a day or so ago.
It looks as if the Germans are
beaten b'ut they seem to be leary
of admitting it as some people do
about admitting their age, but beat
en they are, and .some day this
mess will be over. We hope! As
you will see by the addressing or
date line you “ will know that this
is being written in Holland. To me,
Holland, at the present time, is a
country of contrast, with regards
to the human residents. There is
■ the contrast of costumes or clothes,
some that ai’e reminiscent of "Old
Dutch Cleanser” with variegated
designes and metals on the white
hats of the women -and' there are
the modern clothes of the modern
fashion, The strange hats of the
women and the sombre -clothes of
the men
hats are
but after
—all the „ . . _ _ .old—even the children look old.
The old appearance of these people
may be because of hard work. It
takes a lot of work to keep their
homes as neat as they do. One vil
lage we passed had no outward
appearance of the effect of war—
but it was a tedious looking place.
It was too neat—It didn’t have
that comfortable lived in appear
ance. Many of the younger and
some of the older Dutch who have
had a fairly good education can
speak a bit of English. It is taught
in the schools, along with Erench
and' German. Right now it is quite
warm, with hot sunny days—but
the nights, or even When the sun
sneaks behind a cloud it becomes
X- X .
and
With the flat, priest-like
quaint and interesting—
awhile one loses interest
people wearing them look
chilly—but I guess that can .be ex
pected as it is as yet only April.
A'lready, some of the boys are strip
ping to the waist, trying for a gold
en brown .tan. Improvision is an
art in this life—and I am tearing
fast, I have no ink so I am using
some shoe dye with which to get
this epistle written. It does not do
too bad a job of it. Incidentally,
the place this dye came from is
"Kaput” having been plastered by
Allied bombs. Looks as if I am
getting off the subject. I started
to say thanks for the parcel. Sorry,
it is not much of a letter but I just
had to
cerely,
write and say thanks.—Sin-
Sydney West.
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Mr. Creech:—(Again, many
to the Exeter Committee
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Dear
thanks
for a lovely parcel. I must admit
I have ’been' a bit tardy in writing
as it arrived a couple of weeks ago,
and its contents have long since
gone where they do the most good.
It certainly is pleasant to know
that you folks at home are thinking
of us over here, and I can assure
you we are doing all we can to fin
ish off this war business and get
back to good old Canada as soon
as We can. I am now more than
half through my tour of operations,
but am beginning to think tile scrap
won’t last long enough for me to
complete the- tour, A few weeks
ago we were .quite busy helping
the army .blast their way througn
the Rhur Valley, and even did a
long one to help out the Russians
coining this’way. Our targets aie
quite varied and every trip is dif
ferent from the one -before, and
all are very interesting, although
the excitement is a little greater
than anticipated. Being over Ger
man territory on a black night with
tracer bullets from an enemy air
craft coming toward you is not a
comfortable feeling, but they are
not all good shots, thank goodness.
However, this life is not as grim
as they sometimes paint ft, and
there certanly is a lot of satisfac
tion in turning away from a target
and seeing the thick black smoke
rolling up and realizing that old
Adolphe will have a little less oil
to operate his war machinery or
realising that there are a few less
guns they won’t be able to fire
on our pals in the Army as they
push forward. I feel rather close
to home on this squadron-—the
Snowy Owls—as they are sponsor
ed by the City of London, Ontario.
Again many thanks.—W. M. Howey.
A Jap secret agent had been in
structed to investigate internal con
ditions in the United States and
report particularly on national mo
rale. After a few days, ho filed his
report for transmittal to Tokyo
"Conditions very bad. People all
very hungry. When two people
meet on street, one always says to
the other, “What's cookin’?”
THE ONI.Y SYNTHETIC RUBBER TIRE
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CAR owners have been wondering just
how safe synthetic rubber tires are—
just how much mileage they will give.
Firestone decided to put its tires to the
supreme test. So a race car was equipped
with regular, stock Firestone Synthetic
Rubber Tires, the same as you can buy
for your car, and raced for 500 miles
around the Indianapolis Speedway under
American Automobile Association super
vision.
Wilbur Shaw, famous three-time win
ner of the Indianapolis Sweepstakes,
volunteered to make the run. And he
averaged 100.34 miles an hour, hitting
more than 135 miles an hour on the
straightaways! Imagine the punishment
those tires took as they pounded over
the fough brick and grinding asphalt...
equal to 50,000 miles of ordinary driving!
Yet, in this grueling, tire-torturing test,
not a skid or blowout occurred.
Reinember this fact when you get per
mission to buy new tires—-Firestone are
the only tires made that are safety-
proved on the speedway for your pro
tection on the
highway.
Made of. FiREsWWW,
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Graham Arthur
Dealers in Exeter
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