The Wingham Advance-Times, 1943-08-05, Page 7THESE ITALIANS IN SICILY DIED IN VAIN
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Members of a Britisit-6anadian patrol Step pastance was qui011y overwhelmed by the superior i
dead Italians at Avola, Sicily. The defenders' resist- I sent by the Allied command.
THE BOMBER PRESS a party such as this moves in accord-. was so impressed with these English
IN GREAT BRITAIN ante with the instructions of the War porters that he wrote, " . . . the host
- • Office". of uniformed porters, who spring
DR. W. M. CONNELL
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Phone 19
J. W. BUSHFIELD
Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc.
Money To Loan.
Office - Meyer Block, Wingham
W. A. CRAWFORD, M.D.
Physician and Surgeon
Located at the office of the late
Dr. J. P. Kennedy,
Phone 150
Wingham
HARRY FRYFOGLE
Libensed Embalmer and
Funeral Director
Furniture and •
Funeral Service
Ambulance Service
Phones: Day 109W. Night 109J.
J. H.. CRAWFORD
Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc.
Bonds, Investments & Mortgages
Wingham Ontario
J. A. FOX
Chiropractor and Drugless
Therapist.
RADIONIC EQUIPMENT.
COMPLETE HEALTH
SERVICE.
Phone 191,
THOMAS FELLS
AUCTIONEER
REAL ESTATE SOLD
A Thorough Knowledge of Farm
Stock.
Phone 231, Wingham'
K. M. MacLENNAN
Veterinary Surgeon
Office-Victoria St., West.
Formerly the Hayden Residence
PHONE 196
Wingham, -t. Ontario
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LADS CANADIANS ASHORE IN SICILY'
••" .51aj.-Gen. Guy Simonds, head of the Canadian forces in Sicily,
pictured here leading his troops ashore, as his men began their'invasign
of the island. - - -- • -
way your body nestles in the bed , mental Farm, Ottawa.
resting perfectly . . the sound of a ' Plantain, especially, can be effective-
dog baying away off it the distance ly controlled by spraying the infested
. . . the whispering rustle of leaves area with long-time burning oil at the -
outside your bedroom window. rate of five gallons per one thousand
Sleep comes suddenly . . . swiftly square feet of lawn. The same treat-
you're flotttin away into some- ment is usually effective against the . . . g
thing that's so comfortable, Time and . dandelion but results have not been so' -
eternity and earth mean so little to consistently successful as in the case
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The calves are, bawling in the pasture. perhaps the most common weeds in.
The dog is out for an early niornioo; lawns there are several other. species,.
scamper. The old hers are chatterirg such as chickweed, heal-all and ground
excitedly as the dog races around the !ivy, which often give trouble. Weeds
barnyard. The hired man is pumping 5 of this type may be controlled by
water and daylight is peeping in the dusti ng the infested a rea, very uni
window. It's time to get up. Sleep! formly, with cast ium cyanamid dust
has prepared you for another day w,.; at the race of five pound> per one .
work. 1 thousand square feet. It shxild 'be
:applied on wet foliage as it requires
;moisture to start its herbicide! action. THE CONTROL OF Cyanamid dust is quite caustic so,
WEEDS IN LAWNS in order to prevent burning one should
cover his hands with a thin film of of`
(Experimental Farms News) before handling it.
To many home owners the contr-il All' chemicals which are used to
of weeds in the lawn is a probleth. control weeds in lawns discolour the
Many hours are often spent in sped- grass for some time after they are
ding dandelions and pulling plantain applied. This period of disc. ,k oration.
only to find that next year there are is shorter when the applicati.n is made
as many and sometimes more of these in the spring and in the fall. In the.
weeds, than ever. There is a:t ea' der Ottawa district fa:1 treatments should
way of controlling plantain and &twit.- not he applied later than the first.
hen, says George Kroov:es. Field week of September, so as to insure a
Husbandry Division. Central. Experi- rerrAery of the :grass bef)re winter.
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WRID:r fit
that you are in the war zone. There
are plenty of signs of preparation to
repel an invader at a moment's notice_
Obstructions have been placed in
fields, or other places that might be
used as a landing spot for enemy
planes, and material has been prepared
and placed in readiness to make bar-
ricades or obstructions at strategic
points on the roads and highways.
Everything is different from peace-
time travel, in fact travel is discour-
aged now as much as possible. There
are signs at every station reading "Is
your journey really necessary"
All trains are overcrowds no meals
are now served on them, and reserv-
ations of space are very difficult_
Their system of reserving a compart-
ment is to paste on the door a sticker
reading "Reserved". If there are
several of these stickers on the train
it is difficult to find out which reserv-
ed compartment is yours.
Travellers must now look after their
own baggage. The English railways
have never adopted the Canadian sys-
tem of 'checking baggage. Before She
war there were many porters to look
after the baggage. John L. Stoddard,
famous world' traveller and lecturer,
On every hand there is evidence • forth to assist on the arrival of the
train, relieving us of bags and parcels,
bringing our baggage from the van,
I calling a cab, assisting us into it with
our satchels, and telling the.driver our
I destination; all of which' is so quietly
and quickly done that were I asked to
name a specimen of almost perfect
service, I should say `that of an Eng-
!lish railroad porter' ".
Today, there are no porters, and the
traveller rushes desperately along the
side of the train, peering into the com-
partments,' looking for a vacant seat,
and finally piling in anywhere, stand-
ing up for the journey, and blocking
the corridor, if there is one, with the
baggage.
It is taken as a matter of course
that most of the trains are late, prob-
ably due to delays caused by over-
crowding. A ticket must be shown
before, anyone can get on to a station
platform,, This ticket is taken up
when leaving the platform at the des-
tination. However, platform tickets
may be purchased which entitle to the
holder to go on to the platform to
meet or say goodbye to a visitor.
The usual place names have disap-,
peared from the stations. In their
places are very small printed signs,
Another in a series of articles written
by W. R. Legge and C. V. Charters,
who represented the Canadian
Weekly Newspapers Association in
a recent tour overseas.
TRAVEL IN WARTIME
BRITAIN
(Article No. 28)
By Water R. Legge
Travel at any time in another coun-
try is exceedingly interesting, 'but the
privilege of travelling as we did in
Britain in wartime is an experience
enjoyed by few.
One item on the list of instructions
given us before we started read as
follows: "It .must always be remem-
bered that the British Isles are very
.definitely in the war zone, and that
DONALD B. BLUE
Experienced Auctioneer
Licensed for Counties of
HURON & BRUCE
All Sales Capably Handled.
R, R. 1, Kincardine
Phone: Ripley 30-24.
WELLINGTON FIRE
Insurance Company
Est. 1840
An all Canadian Company which
has faithfully served its policy
holders for over a century .
Head Office - Toronto
H. C. MacLean Insurance Agency
Wingham
DR. R. L. STEWART
PHYSICIAN ,
Telephone 29
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: Cent-re St., Wingham
Osteopathic and Electric Treat-
ments, Foot Technique.
Phone '272. Wingham.
which .are very hard to see or read,
The traveller must therefore listen
carefully to .the name called out at
the stops, and take care that he is not
taken past his or her destination.
Wartime restrictions have made a
big change in the travellers them-
selves, who now are very friendly and
will frequently even share their lunch
with other travellers who are complete
strangers.
\Ve saw very few signs of damage
to the railways, but were told, when
we expressed our surprise, that all
such damage had been quickly repair-
ed.
At blackout time, guards make sure
that all windows are covered, al-
though is most compartments there is
very little light, only enough to enable
one to get in or out without walking
on other, people's feet. Usually there
is only one dim light in a compart-
ment, and that is almost concealed
with a metal reflector.
Hotels carry on under difficulties,
due to shortage of help and food re-
strictions. guests are expected to
walk upstairs if they are not above the
third storey, and to walk down no
matter how many stories. It takes al-
most a weekt to get any laundry done.
Few of the hotels provide keys to
the rooms, yet nobody seems to lose
anything. It was difficult to find ac-
commodation for a party the size of
ours, as hotels with room accommoda-
tion probably would not be able to
feed us, or if they could furnish meals,
did not have the rooms.
The London Underground system
seems to have been affected by the
war the least of any mode of travel.
The trains run through tubes which
are very deep in the ground and are
reached by large numbers of escalators
or moving staircases, One much ap-
preciated advantage of underground
travel is that 'it is brilliantly lighted
at all times.
Bus travel, although greatly restric-
ted, due to the need of so many buses
for transporting munition workers, is
still carrying on.
During the first few weeks we were
there, we travelled 1930 miles in our
own private bus. \Ve found it most
difficult to Intow where we were as
all place signs have disappeared. We
frequently went through large places
without the least idea of their names.
It gives one a feeling of bafflement
when it seems impossible to find out
the names of the places.
One day we stopped in a small
settlement. Seeing a young boy at
the side of the road, we asked him
the name of the place. He bad evi-
dently been well trained, because he
answered that he did not know. Some
of our bus travel was done at night
and it. always was amazing to us how
the bus driver could find his way so
well in the dark.
While most of the surface transport
in London is by omnibus, there are
several- street car lines, such as the
e on the Old Kent Road. 'These
look very strange to Canadian eyes as
they are double deck street cars, and
are operated with hand brakes. The
street cars in Blackpool, however, are
very smart and modern,
In most cities taxies are not running,
or are very hard to get. In London, •
however, they are fairly. plentiful,
They looked very old fashioned to us,
but are efficient' and can "turn on a
dime",
Bicycles are st
land. One Sunday afterloou We were
taken through Runnymede, (where the
Magna Charta was signed), and we
never saw so many people on bicycles
before in our lives. Some of them
were equipped with sidecars and could
take out .the whole family, including
the baby.
Altogether, travel in Britain today is
difficult, but not impossible. Our ex-
perience gave us an insight into the
way Britain's transportation problems
are being handled.
PHIL OSIFER OF
LAZY MEADOWS
By Harry J, Boyle
The more I think about it the more
I'm convinced that sleep is one of the
greatest things in this world. That
may sound like a basic article for the
creed of a lazy man , , but actually
it's just born of long experience.
Think it over. The first thing you'll
be convinced that there isn't a balm
in the world that equals that of sleep,
Take for instance the long, hard
days when you're working in the fields.
Daylight will be just breaking when
you crawl out of bed and then all day
long you work . . work . . work.
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There are chores and then out to the
field for some particular piece of
work. Suppose you're drawing in hay.
You take it out of the coils and pitch
it on . . . coil by coil . , . load by
load that must be hauled to the barn
and then mowed away in the big, deep mw
Evening comes on and after supper
you work away as long as possible.
You can't take a chance when the hay's
fit for the barn. Then when the last
load of the day is away you unhitch
. the horses and finally get the work
done up at the barn, go to the house,
take a quick glance at the paper and
ten chances to one you sit out on the
• front veranda with your shoes off and
sort of bask in that cool evening_ It's
quiet and peaceful and the crickets
sound off all around you while the oc-
casional! car goes by, grumbling and
rumbling as it runs over the loose
bridge planks. The light streams out
from the open kitchen door sending a
shaft across the front lawn that serves
as a playground for the June bugs
and insects.
Finally your head begins to nod.
The air seems heavy with incense .. .
the incense of living, growing things
and the smell of new mbwn hay that
poets wax so poetic about. Your body
is tired and relaxed and you have a.
desire to just stay where you are and •
sleep but Imply as the air gets a
little cooler you go in .. . sleepily and
net ready for bed. It seems such an
effort to take the clothes off.
You snuggle down between the cool
sheets and a numbness seems to come
oozing into your very being. Some-
times you almost have the feeling that
you're being wafted away, A silly
old childish legend about the sandman
dusting your eyelids comes back to'
you. They get heavy and you open 1
them and get a last glimpse of the 1
moon corning up aver the barn . . . i
and you think that it looks like a
queer saucer standing on it's side.
The man in the moon is winking at
you . , . but somehow . . . somehow
,your eyelids want to stay eli,sed and
II popular in Eng- . you have a few la--t 'sensations. The