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As an outsider looking in, I felt
they had evolved a system which
aimed at simplicity combined with ef-
fective' control,
I didn't think -Ihad to bother these
People with questions on the why and
wherefore of rationing. The necessity
is plain logic and doesn't take any un-
due reasoning.
In previou and' following articles
the picture of 'Canada's economy is
painted just as factually as I can make
it from on the spot. If you or I want
to criticize methods, that's a demo-
cratic privilege. So hop to it if you
feel the urge. But at least you are
getting a little of the background, I
hope.
HEPBURN TO VOTE
FOIL JOHN BRACKEN
Speaks In Glowing •Terms Of Pro-
gressive-Conservative Leader
Mitchell Hepbitim, former Ontario
Liberal premier and until last Wed-
nesday the provincial treasurer, said
he 'will vote ,at the nett election for
John Bracken, Progressive Conserv-
ative leader.
MITCHELL HEPBURN
"I am not going to vote Liberal at
the next election," said Mr. Hepburn
in addressing the Ontario Brother-
hood of Threshermen.
"Let them read me out' of the party
if they like.6 I am going to vote for
John Bracken, a decent, progressive,
kindly man who is out to give all
people of Canada a decent govern-
ment."
Without any elaboration he spoke
of elections coming sooner or later in
the Dominion, and Ontario, but failed
to disclose his views on how the elec-
torate should' vote in the province.
"I. am -not a Tory, God forbid," de-
clared Mr. Hepburn, "and I am not
in collusion with Mr. Bracken. He
does not know I am speaking here
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Business and Professional Directory
WELLINGTON FIRE
Insurance Company
Est. 1140
An all Canadian Company which
has faithfully served its policy hold-
ers for over a century.
Head Office - Toronto
H. C. MacLean Insurance Agenc3,
Wingham
DR. W. M. CONNELL
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Phone 19
J. W. BUSHFIELD
Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc.
Money To Loan.
Office - Meyer Block, Wingham
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VVRAT RAVE YOU 76
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W. A. CRAWFORD, M.D.,
Physician and Surgeon
Located at the office of the late
Dr. J. P. Kennedy.
Phone 150 Witigham
J. H. CRAWFORD
Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc..
Bonds, Investments & Mortgages
Windham Ontario
DR..R.1... STEWART
PHYSICIAN
Telephone 29
SCOTT'S SCRAP' BOOK • By R.) SCOTT
A. H. McTAVISH, B.A.
Teeswater, Ontario
Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public
and Conveyancer
Office: Gofton House, Wroxeter
every Thursday afternoon 1.30 to
4.30 and by appointment.
Phone Teeswater 120J.
Frederick A. Parker
OSTEOPATH
Offices: Centre St., Wingham
Osteopathic and •Electric Treat-
- tnents. F'oot Technique.
Phone 272. Wingham.
HARRY FRYFOGLE
Licensed Embalmer and
Funeral Director
Furniture and
Funeral Service
Ambulance Service.
Phones: Day 109W.. Night 109J
THOMAS FELLS
AUCTIONEER
REAL ESTATE SOLD
A Thorough Knowledge of Farm
Stock.
Phone 231, Wingham
J. ALVIN FOX
Licensed Drugless Practitioner
CHIROPRACTIC - DRUGLESS
THERAPY RADIONIC
EQUIPMENT
Hours by Appointment.
Phone 191 Wingham
' K. M. MacLENNAN
Veterinary Surgeon
Office-Victoria St., West.
Formerly the Hayden residence.
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Thursday', Mardi 11th„ 1943 WING AM ADVANCE-TIMES
RATIONING
We who think in terms of 50 chick-
sens and fOur cows can hardly conceive
the magnitude of the task in planning
' and distributing the millions of Num-
ber 2 Ration Books, which. you may
or may not yet have when you read
"This rationing is something
which affects about.
12- million people
24 hours in every
day," quietly said
L. B. Unwin, Can-
ada's rationing
chief, in his Mont-
real office.
Just a little back-
ground of Mr. Un-
win will serve to
show why it looks
to me that these wartime jobs are be-
ing efficiently handled. It sounds a
little 'Horatio Alger. At 51, Mr. Un-
win is vice-president in charge of fin-
ance for the Canadian Pacific, and„
president of their growing Airlines.
He came out from Kent, England, at.
sixteen and in .27 years reached his
present job. He was a railway clerk
• at Chapleau in 1908. He won the
Military Cross for bravery in the first
Great War, starting out as a buck
private, ending as a Major. He now
serves without cat to' his country.
Tall, unobstrusive, baldish; astronomi-
heal figures, big jobs, he takes in
stride.
Local Boards In National Set-up
You wondered why your Local
Ration Board was set up, with its for-
a-time inactivity. Now you probably
know. It was all part of a nation-wide
scheme to do a •tremendous job with
the least disturbance and at a mini-
mum of cost to the taxpayer, There
were wheels revolving within wheeli,
policies to be determined before Mr.
Unwin's ere* 'got- going. Then there
had to be directives to those who
would do the actual work in cities and
towns from Sydney, 'N,S., to Victoria,
B.C.
Just imagine the confusion-not to
even think of your own. feelings, if
you had come ill... from the farm op a
blustery day and some inefficient, if
patriotic, volunteer worker got your
card all balled up: But all this had
been taken care of while yOu sat out
the winter around the pot-bellied
stove. The Distributing Chief appoint-
ed by your own Local. Ration Board
had definite instructions on every 'tiny
phase of the operation, and so did-the
other volunteer workers who are doing
or did; something which is their con-.
tribution to the war effort. • Just
Think of it: all these folks working
without remuneration. That's the
home front for you. It means a big
saving to the taxpayer too.
,Mr. Unwin told of the different seta'
conditions which had to be provided
for in' distribation for urban and rural
centres, That was worked out before-
hand, with leeway given the local dis-
tributing chief because he knew con-
ditions better than the fellows in Ot-
tawa or Montreal.
The Story Behind'Ration Books
Do you know that the King's Print-
er started delivering ration books to
the administration between January
20th and 26th at the rate of a million
a day, with the distribution, Domin-
ion-Wide, set for Feb, 19th to March
1st, You know yourself what was in
each book. They were in cartons of
1,,500 'bOols each, banded in O's,
.There had to be provision., I Was told,
for additional sheets, in regulative
quantity, of course, for underground
soft coal miners and diabetics, ,Just
imagine the -detail involved, and still
in this set of Montreal offices with Its
clatter of typewriters and ringing of
'phones there was radiating all over
Canada, with decision and clarity of
.purpose but an absence of any bed-
lain, a :distribution of ration. cards so
vast as to stultify the imagination un-
less one was on the scene,
As you know the No, -2 book was
riot mailed out, but you folks had
to "come and get it". Some of us just
hate to put ourselves out and the .ads
ministration realized that, They real-
ized also 'that. Canadians do not have
to be Gestapo'd into anything,' and are
ant6iiable to reason, And why should-
n't they • be, with a war on? If, we
Want'.to play rummy in the back of
John . 13-lack's real .e-state office, the
government doeosn't move John's
premises to your doorstep. So, .Mr.
Unwin's outfit wasn't a bit disturbed
about :Canadian consumers'. reaction to
this decision,
' 'Distribution is Complex
They had to be sure that every
town of 500 people had at least one
distributing centre; that, cities of 100,-
000 or .• more had offices located
strategically to, accommodate 'busy
people, to avoid bottle-necks, even
going ,so far as to issue instructions
that -doors- in the places decided on
were •convenietnly located to avoid
congestion. We Wouldn't think of
things like that out our way. .Do yo'u
know,. I was even shoWn. how instruc-
tions were sent out on how the tables
were to be arranged to handle people
quickly.
The administration, for instance, had
to figure out. such things as return .of
cards . from ration book No. 1, which
were handed in before you got a new
one; and the green,..sheets for tea and
coffee which were jerked t out from
children's books. Each- and every
book, card or sheet has to be account-
ed for to avoid letting any unscrup-
ulous person. get their hands on them.
Volunteer Workers Dollar , Savers
Mr. Unwin told of -the vast number
of' volunteer workers necessary to put
the ,job over. Reports coming •to his
office, analyzed and bird's-eye-viewed
for his benefit; show that Canadians
responded and saved the nation mil-
lions of dollars which can be Convert 7
ted to tanks, planes, guns and other
instruments of war. "The success of
the whole scheme will 'depend," he
said, ',upon the resourcefulness and on
the hard work Which everyone con-
tributes." They rely on that, -here in
this Montreal headquarters of con 7
sumer rationing.
tonight, 'Tli‘e :people of Canada will.'
have to Make a .Choice at the next
'Dominion election,"
MD, Hepburn pictured himself as an
"outcast Liberal," and said that while
he stood alone politically "the greatest
court. of public opinion will justify the
course I have ra.i.c.rt."
Premier .(Cordon Conant last Wed-,
nesday night announced acceptance of
Mr. Kepb-urn's resigation and in a
letter to the retiring provincial treas-
Prer.
JAPANESE BEETLES CAPTURED
A number of Japanese beetles, cap•
lured last autumn shortly after they
had crossed the Canadian border at
Niagara, has been forwarded to the
Royal Qntario Museum by the Plant.
Inspection Office, Department of'Agti-
culture. These saboteurs are about
the size of the coMmon potato beetle.
They are metallic green and bronze in
colour, Entomologists of the Museum
state that the Japanese beetle is one
of the most destructive of insect pests.
It attacks the foliage of fruit :trees,
vines and garden- plants, It is native
to. Japan, was accidentally transported
to the United States in 1916, and is
now a threat to Canada.
HOWICK COUNCIL
The Council met in the Fire Insur-
ance. Office, the Members were all
present the Reeve D. L. Weir, in the
chair.
The minutes of last regular meeting
were read, and on motion .of Winter
and Inglis, were adopted,
Moved by Farris,h and-Winter that
Oliver Stewart be paid $15.00 for
Plow broken while plowing snow
roads. Carried.
Moved by Inglis and Winter that
a vote of thanks be tendered I. J.
Hueston and his staff of helpers for
services rendered to the citizens of
Howick in the diStribution of Ration
Book No. 2. Carried.
Moved by McCallum annd Parrish
that Alius Plantz be granted a refund
of dog tax. Carried. '
Moved by Parrish and McCallum
that a grant of $2,00 be given to
Wroxeter Women's Institute for clean-
ing street Carried.
Moved by Inglis and Winter that
the Report of the School Attendance
Officer for the month of November,
be accepted and placed on file.' Car-
ried:
Moved by Parrish and Inglis that
this Township renew its membership
in the Association. of Assessing Of-
ficers Ontario for the year 1943.
Carried.
Moved by Winter and McCallum
that a refund of dog tax be given H.
W. Townsend, he having no .dog. Car-
ried.
Moved by Inglis and Parrish that
the Clerk be hereby authorized to ad-
vertise for tenders for No. 2 marked
gasoline and No. 1 oil for the Power
Grader, containers and pump to be
supplieid by the tenderer, and to be
delivered at Nelson Gowdys home,
tenders to be in the hands of the Clerk
on or before 12 o'clock, noon, an the
25th day of March. Carried.
Moved by Parrish and McCallum
that the Clerk be hereby instructed to
write up Application for an Old Age
Pension for Henry Langwich. Car-
he's well again
and doing a war job.
"MY HUSBAND'S had a nervous breakdown -
just worry. He left his job in the shipyard to go
into logging. But his health suffered and the doctor
says he's got to take a complete rest. But we haven't
any ready money. How can he rest?"
The bank manager listened to her troubles
sympathetically. He knew the husband, knew the
wife-both sound citizens. The bank advanced the
money on personal security . . . on the good char-
acter of two honest, hard-working people.
In a few weeks, Fred was well again and work-
Ing in the shipyard. The loan was paid back in
full. Because of bank accommodation he is now
getting financially on his feet again-and aiding
Canada's war effort.
This true story-only the name is changed-
illustrates how Canada's Chartered Banks, day in
and day out, serve the human as well as the finan-
cial needs of Canadians:
By banking during morning hours you can help the war effort,
facilitate your own business, and lighten the wartime burden
'on the men and women in your branch bank. More than one.
third of our experienced men have gone to war.
• The CHARTERED EiNKS of‘CANADA
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refund of dog tax $2.00; Ass'n of As-•
sessing Officers, membership fee'
$10.00; Dr. Livingstone, anaesthetic for.
H. Langwich $5.00; Mum World, As-
sessment Roll and dog tags $25.29;
CKNX Wingham, two ads re Assessor
$3.00; H. J. Hofmann, watches for A.
S. men $53,25; Relief, $117.83; Qliver
Stewart, broken plow $15.00,
Moved 'by McCallum and Winter
that this Council do now- adjourn to
meet in the Township Hall, Gorrie, an
the fifth day of March, or at the tall
of the Reeve. Carried.
Isaac Gamble, Clerk.
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reed.
. Moved by Winter and McCallum.
that the. Road accounts, as approved,
be paid. Carried.
Moved by Inglis and Winter that
the following accounts . be paid. Car-
ried:
Isaac Gamble, part salary. as clerk,
$35.00; How. Vire Els. Co., rent of
room $1.50; Alius Plantz, refund of
dog tax $2.00; Wroxeter W'omens In-
stitute, grant for cleaning street $2,00;
J. H. Rogers, postage & Excise $9.00;
County Treas., hospital expenses, H.
Langwich $44.60; H. W. Townsend,
ACROSS
1. Knot in
wood
6. Work
11. Means of
communica..;
tion
12. Sunbaked
brick
13. Mature
insect
14. Law
15. A pool
16. Money
17. Shaping
machine
21. Perish
24. Sorrow
25, Beast of
burden
Z. Celestial
being
30, Pliant
32. Wrap
33. Animal's
nail
84, Monstrosity
36. Fabricate
37. Still
38. Anger
40. Indian weeght
41. Little
quarrels
43, Part of
church
46. Bird
60, Midday meal
152. Flat-bot.
tom boat
83. Rapidly
84, Little
islanda
115. 'Mayor
66. Article of
bedding.
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