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The Wingham Advance-Times, 1941-06-05, Page 4>AGETWO WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES Thursday, Juns 5 th, 1941 / HEED HEW TIRES DOT I CAN'T SREHD MUCH MOHEV GET QO&vyMR MARATHONS! THey give you DIG MILEAGE AND Toey yen at a REAL low PRICE th?- floor littered with broken glass. The snake was shot MINUTE MINIATURES Brief Backgrounds in the Careers of Canada’s Captains in War running through ihe tests for a li cense,. Juhe, 191.6, saw Breadner over the Belgian coast as a fighter pilot. With in a year he commanded a squadron • For big mileage and a down right cash saving in first low cost, get the popular Goodyear Marathon. In it you get a centre-traction diamond tread at the lowest price. Drive in! See it today! A German taught Air Vice-Marshal Lloyd Sam Breadner, D.S.C., Chief of Canada’s Air Staff, to fly. The Reich has lived to rue the day when that German was born, as months ahead of schedule, hundreds of fighter pilots, products of the Commonwealth Air Training Plan, stream across the At lantic to help in the Battle of Britain, and to carry war deep into industrial Germany. Breadner was born in Carleton Place, Ontario, in 1894. Later he mov ed’to Ottawa, where his father is a wholesale manufacturing jeweller with a factory on Somerset Street. In 1915, wishing to qualify for the Royal Naval Air Service in Great Bri tain, Breadner joined the Wright Fly ing School in Dayton, Ohio, paid about $60 per flying hour out of his own poc ket—and upkeep as well, while wait ing his turn to complete this course. This comprised a total of three hours flying experience. After that his Ger man instructor qualified him as a pilot. Two-and-a-half flying hours were spent in learning, the last half hour in AIR VICE-MARSHAL LLOYD SAM BREADNER, D.S.C., Chief of Canada’s Air Staff of his own and.had won the Disting uished Service Cross. With the form ation of the Royal Air Force in 1918, he was transferred to that organization and served with it till the end of the FOR YOUR BEST BUY IN TIRES ...SEE Murray Johnson ■ Wingham, - - - Ontario PHIL OSIFER OF LAZY MEADOWS I By Harry J. Boyle “SPRING” door and doze away an afternoon. However, there’s work to he done and we’ll survive the 'easy-goingness that Spring sunshine prompts and get our work done and wait until the ten der green shoots come poking up through the warm moist earth. An other Spring and summer season has come to Lazy Meadows! sun overhead a very short There’s something about Spring that you simply can't help but notice. Spring is in the air that you breathe in the early morning . . . crisp and fresh, with a bright promising heat within space of time. There’s a touch of Spring in the way the dust clouds up after the seed drill or the harrows. The dirt feels crumbly and fertile under your feet, crumbling as you walk and building up little mounds of dust on the toecaps ©f your shoes. I like to stop and rest at the end of the field and see where the leaves are ■misting over the shadows of the bare trees on the ground. There’s a* wel come, friendly sound in the twittering birds as they flit about on the branches, You can’t help but feel the friendli ness of Spring. It’s everywhere you turn. Across the Big Meadows the Higgins girls are whacking carpets on the line . . . and the windows are op en, with the curtains flapping in the Spring breeze. Dogs have a peculiar way of yap ping in Springtime. Take for instance the pup here. Ever since we started seeding he has been dashing back and forth in the fields . . . looking over ground hog holes in anticipation of new tenants and finding old bones that he buried so carefully last year. . Have you ever watched the hens in the barnyard on a Spring day? Take raotice how they scratch on a dry piece »of ground. First, one foot drags back ‘'Careftdly and then the other foot care fully scratches twice. Perhaps that is "the way the present day waltz origin ated. Spring has come to the village also. ’The jgaaifen plots, have been work up 'S/i'd the mfehJolks are busy in their shirt-sleeves hoeing and .raking or Spading, while the women-folks work in the flower-beds/ Trust the women folks to think of the .beauty and the men to think of the vegetables. Tim Murphy, at the General Store, has moved the soap boxes out on the front 'Steps. Drive into the village these evenings and there’s a crowd sitting around. The open air forum meetings have commenced again. War mews Is interspersed with the accounts seeding operations on the various ifatms and the recitals of various live stock deals of the past winter. I 'Sitting' on the verandah at home these Spring evenings we can watch the twinkling lights of the planes fly ing Overhead. Might bombers! We watch the red and green tips of light that sail along like mysterious stars „. thankful that the planes go peace- ftilly oft their way, lit place of drop ping bombs that will destroy our hom es aftd property and the quiet, perfect ‘beauty of a Spring bight, Spring has come to Laay Meadows. IVs apparent in the hay like way we >ee life. Tltereh something about Spring stmshine that makes you want prop a seed, grain hag ttp at the barn' WINGS FOR BRITAIN The following lines, translated from Gray’s “Luna Habitabilis,” written at Cambridge in 1737, are being publish ed throughout Canada as a prophecy which “Wings for Britain, a volunteer Canadian fund, located at 215 St. James Street West, Montreal, hopes to help come true. Wings for Britain has been registered under the War Charities Act and is incorporated in Canada to serve as an agency through which all contributions of planes for the R.A.F. may be made. ‘L'UNA HABITABILIS” Cambridge 1737 The time will come, when thou shalt lift thine eyes, To watch a long-drawn battle in the skies, While aged peasants, too amazed for words, Stare at the flying fleets of wond’rolis birds, England, so long the mistress of the' seas, Where winds and waves confess her sovereignty, . Her ancient triumphs yet ow high shall! bear, And reign, the sovereign o£ the con quered air, THIS STRANGE WORLD A servant girl in Canada spent most of her spare time knitting sweaters for Norwegians, and sent them by the' Red Cross, Recently she has, had a letter thanking her for one of the. sweaters. It came from a German sol dier!* * ♦ Mrs. Georgia Watson of Geobgia, U.S.A. ' became a mother herself wheai only 13,, and her daughter, Mrs, Lewis, Klandk er, has given birth to a som* ♦ ♦ The town of East St. Louas>. Illinois,, was overrun by dogs, so they employ ed a man to catch stray 'dags and iin- pound them. He was to receive $L.OO; for each dog he caught. After 29 days, the town decided it couldn't afford to keep a dog-catcher any longer. He’d brought in 1500 dogs in the 29 days!* * ♦ A 60-y ear-old lady of Jersey City, Miss Lucille Anderson has returned to her old profession,, of high diving, after losing her job as a typist she had held for 35 years, Her turn (twice daily) includes a dive of 100 feet into 5 feet of water in a tank only 135 feet in diameter. * * * On seeing its reflection in a bed- room mirror, a snake from Vumvuma, Rhodesia, broke glassware in the room in a fight with its own image. Mrs. Whceleg, owner of the house, return ed to find everything swept off her ; dresskig-toble And mantelpiece, and is a.’ grandmother at 28 »■ She. war. When the Armistice was signed h? took his discharge at the Crystal Palace, London, and immediately re turned to Ottawa, Breadner, welcomed into his father’s business, spent just 16 months out of the country's seivice. Then his form er Commanding Officer, Colonel J, Stanley Scott, newly appointed first Controller of Civil Aviation in Can ada, persuaded him to become his as sistant, Not since then has Breadner been disassociated from aeronautics. When the Royal Canadian Air Force was founded in 1924, Breadner, then Acting Controller of Civil Aviation, was recommissioned and made Offic er Commanding, R.C.A.F, Station, Camp Borden. The next year he was sent to the Royal Air Force staff col lege at Andover, England, and on his' return, with the rank of Wing Com mander, became Acting Director of the Royal Canadian Air Force, For anoth er three years after that he was C.O. Trenton R.C.A.F. Station, organizing the early development of what is to day Canada’s number one training sta tion. s In 1935 he. returned to England to attend Imperial Defence College. Soon after war broke oqt, he was back in England, this time as Air-Adviser to the Hon. T. A. Crerar, during a con ference to coordinate the Empire war effort. Breadner, who returned to Ot- WAITING FOR TROUBLE — seaboard, these members of a coastal To help while away the long hours defence battery indulge in a game of of watchfulness on Canada’s Eastern cribbage. tawa on Christmas day of ’39, just a week after the launching of the British Commonwealth Air Training Flan,, was placed in charge of operations. May 29th, he became Chief of. Air Staff. Gruff and aggressive, Air Vice Marshal Breadner is today pushing the Air Training Scheme like a powerful engine. “Did Freda regret leaving the stage when she married?” “Not in the last, She feels she’s stilt in the profession.” “How is that?” “One scene after another.” ♦ National ComriniHe»> Victory Lean 1941, Ottawa, Canada 4 ,"■ ■ - ••••• 3 /•' v ? ' For every Canadian who sails the deep, for every airman who flashes through the skies, and for every other man in the fighting forces, the prayers of the nation “rise like a fountain, night and day.” In times of crisis out people stand steadfast In daily devotions they renew the flame of faith and arm with unseen powers their warriors in the field* Oftentimes they discern the Unseen Hand. Witness the miracle of Dunkirk. Witness, too, in the darkest hours the emergence of great inspiring figures to steady the ranks of Democracy and fire its courage and confidence* Church hells ate ringing throughout. Canada calling men and women to worship and sacrifice in defence of our freedom, the sanctity of our homes and the future of our children* , Translate your faith into works by buying Victory Bonds. I