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WESTFIELD
PAO Ti-IP WINGHAIVL ADVANCE-TIM ;$: Thursday Evbruary 24, 1944
We are making the largest
quantity passible under war-time
restrictions • . • scion, we hope, we
will again make all you want.
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Plenty of Wheat
Ottawa, — Agriculture Minister
":Gardiner said in the Commons that
-despite heavy proposed shipments of
wheat to the United States there is
no danger of a shortage in Canada
even if this year's crop is poor. The
House began a review of Agricultural
Department estimates totaling $17,-
623,062,
Tie Up Montreal Trams
Montreal, — Montreal tramways of-
ficials said "a complete strike" of
operating personnel had resulted from
a work stoppage that started Friday
afternoon as a result of a union juris-
diction dispute. The tramway officials
thus made official Montreal's second
street-car and bus strike within a year.
The first One; last March, lasted for
60 hours.
Bombs Shower Near Westminster
London, — German firebombs show-
ered around the Houses of Parliament
and Westminister Hall, which stands
alongside The Great Pile beside the
Thames, during a recent raid but, al-
though a blaze broke out in West-
minster Hall, the historic buildings
•bad "an amazing escape." Sweeping
low over Parliament Square,- a Ger-
man beinber scattered incendiaries
over the area which had not been
struck since the moonlight raid on
May 10, 1941, destroyed the House of
Commons debating chamber. •
Blast Jap Convoy
Allied Headquarters, In Southwest
Pacific, -- Allied bombers in a • three-
day attack .satik 36,500 tons of merch-
ant ships .arid three warships — all but
possibly two of a 17-ship formation—
bent on :reinforcing imperiling Jap-
anese baaes in the Bismarck Archi-
pelago.
• Confirm Empress of
Cariada SinlEing
Vancouver, — Four hundred lives
were lost in the midnight sinking of
the former Port of Vancouver liner
Empress of Canada off Freetown,
West Africa, a year ago by a sub-
marine. News of the loss of the ship
was publicly confirmed for the first
time, although an Italian communique
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claimed the Canada as a victim on
March 15. 1943. She was carrying
troops and navy personnel, Italian
prisoners and Greek and Polish refu-
gees. Forty-four of the crew of ap-
proximately 300, most of them British,
were lost. The remainder of the 400
lost were Italian prisoners ,of war.
Attack In The Pacific
Pearl Harbor, United States as-
sault troops landed .and ,established
beachheads on Eniwetok ,atoll, wester-
most of the Marshall Islands, striking
a day- after powerful American task-
forces attacked Japan's. mid-Pacific
fortress of Truk, an operation still
masked by radio ,silence.
Yank Invasion Airmen In Britain
London,—The supreme Allied com-
mand disclosed the .presence in Britain
of a new United States .tactical air
force which will co-operate with the
R.A.F. tactical section in supporting
ground action in the coming European
invasion, Together they form the,Al-
lied expeditionary air force .under Air
Marshal 'Trafford L. Leigh-Mallory.
Worst Debacle :Since Stalingrad a
London,''— Premier Marshal Joseph
Stalin announced that Russian troops
in the Ukraine _had liquidated 10 div-
i'si'ons and one brigade of the 8th Ger-
man Army surrounded near' Korsun
after .a 14-day battle in which 52,000
Germans died :and 11,000 surrendered.
"The entire German equipment and
war material was captured by our
troops," Stalin said .in an order of the
day which praised Gen. Ivan S. Konev,
commander -of the 2nd Ukranian front.
The Berlin, radio -announced the Ger-
man evacuation -of„ "Staraya. • Russa,
heavily-fortified railway station just
south of Lake Ilmen on the Baltic
front.
Allied Troopship Sunk
Washington. 'The enemy has
sunk an 4hlied troopship -With loss of
1,000 America °idlers in 'European
waters, the greatest toll ever exacted
from United States convoy forces ply-
ing the, oceans. The ship, cariying
about 2,000 troops, was attacked at
night, probably by submarine. Half
the men were rescued, the army said.
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Oared Gen, Sir a,Hardid Alexander,
commander-in-thief of Allied forces in
Italy,. in a statement,
To cut Air Crew Training
Ottawa, — Air Minister Power said
in the 'commons that under long-term
war Plans there will be "certain re-
ductions" in the number of entrants
to air crew training in 'Canada and a
"[gradual" closing of a number of train-
ing units and schools, Skilled person-
nel in the training arganizatien in Can-
ada will be used to reinforce and en-
large operational units as theybecome
available,
Quebec Protest's, Halifax Idea
Quebec, — The Legislative Assemb-
ly unanimously adopted Amoticin to
protest against "'fjord Halifax's new
imperialism and dangerous tendencies"
and began debate on a motion relative
to immigration.
Soldier Inherits 12,000,000
Oakville,t— A United States Army
private now serving overseas will re-
ceive $2,000.000 from the estate of
Mrs. Mary Martin who died recently
here after making a fortune in North-
ern Ontario mines, The private, 26-
year-old Ben R. 'Violette, a nephew of
Mrs, Martin, is a military policeman
in London, Eng, Mrs. Martin's will
specified that he receive the money
when he is 30.
Canadian Corvette
Makes Daring Rescue
Ottawa, — This is a story of cool
seamanship and courage displayed
when the Canadian corvette Hepatica
fought 20-foot seas and snow. squalls
to lay alongside a blazing tanker, res-
cue 23 men and help salvage part of
a 7,600-ton cargo of fuel oil and a
deckload of 12 planes, An unidenti-
fied tanker crewman was lost, 600 tons
of oil burned, and one plane was dam-
aged.
The Farm Forum met at the home
of Mr, -and Mrs. Wm. McVittie last
week with 35 present. After listening
to the broadcast over CBL in which
the Westfield Forum was mentioned
in having outstanding points, groups
were formed and time Rural Youth
Problem, was discussed, A five min-
ute talk 'on "Life on the Farm" was
given by one of the members of the
forum which took the form of a letter
asking advice about farming and the
reply is as follows: •
Dear Cousin -Rufus:—
Your letter of recent -date in which
you state your intentions of giving up
your job in the city to try your luck
-at farming received yesterday. I can
-assure you it sis a pleasure for me to
.give any information I' can as to what
you may expect to run up against
when you change your occupation.
You -state that you have become so
tired•of your present job, that you can
bear' it no longer, that the weeks as
-they pass have become an endless
round of monotony, and that there is
no hope of attaining enough money to
keep you in your did age. I gather
from time tone of your letter that in
some manner' you have the idea that
life on the farm is just one grand
sweet song-aa -place where no ills can
'befall us—where the birds sing sweet-
ly all day long, and the sky is always
blue. A place -where time farmers' bank
Tell 'grows larger and larger and there
,are few finanCial -worries,
Now my dear Rufus, I would like
to correct your impressions. Quite
true, life on the farm has many com-
pensations. We have plenty of fresh
air-and exercise, sometimes too much
of both — wholesome food and of
course when it is grown on the farm
it costs you nothing, We also have
the joy of keeping farm accounts, It
really gives one a -thrill at the end of
the year to find that your receipts ex-
ceed your expenidture b' $18.47 cents,
That is one side of the picture, I
must now proceed to -inform you that
life on the farm is made up of many
and varied experiences, Perhaps at
some time you may have read. some
of Sandy Frasers letters, and I might
say here that Sandy was a good
Scotch philosopher, In one of his,
letters he stated that it would not be
guid for the human race gin we had
all smooth sailing, that we must learn
to take the bitter with the sweet, to
bear with the disappointments as
the things that -uplift and encourage
us. He further said—It is the knocks
and the jolts, the losses and disap-
pointments of life that make . for us
strong and noble characters,
So now dear Rufus I will endeavor to
shoW you what Sandy meant by the
knocks and jolts and disappointments.
Suppose you move onto your farm be-
fore maple syrup making. You have
visions of how nice it must be to bring
hom e five or ten gallons of that -grand
commodity called maple syrup. Ac-
cordingly you get out your pan, pails
and spites and proceed to the bush.
You tap the trees, gather the sap and
proceed to boil it down. When it is
finished you take off the pan, strain
Your syrup into pails and with visions
of the great forthcoming feast, you
pick up the pails and proceed home-
ward. Half way out of the bush you
catch your toe on a hidden snag, you
lunge forward on your face and your
precious syrup returns to the earth
from whence it came.
You say this must be one of Sandy
Fraser's Character Builders, Well the
rest of the maple syrup season passed
by without mishap. -Seeding time ar-
rives, this too passed by without any
inconvenience, excepting the time
when you treat the grain with ceresan
to kill the smut and you nearly kill
yourself, and also the time when you
have carefully prepared a fifteen acre
field to sow next day. You go out
in the morning to sow, go a few
rounds, all at once something snaps.
You unhitch in the middle of time field
and rush to town for repairs only to
be told "we haven't got it, 'twill be
along in a couple of days". Then
along . comes corn planting time. You
spend a lot of time and energy on the
corn field. You are very anxious to
have a bumper crop. One that will
surpass your neighbors. At last the
corn is in and to leave the rest to
nature. In a few days the corn comes
up 'beautifully and you feel quite se-
cure, but alas a flock of hungry crows
have evil designs on that corn field.
In the early morning hours they get
in their dirty work and you find to
your dismay that a considerable part
of your field will be blank and bare
for that season at least, but you must
not complain, because this a just aim-
other incident in tire process of
character building.
Well haying time arrives and you
cut that nice field of clover. The
weather is -all that could be desired
and you :feel greatly elated at being
able to get that field all stored away
in good shape. Then you 'cut field
No. 2. When it is ready to rake you
go back the lane to begin operations,
and as You proceed you comment on
how wonderfally sweet is the smell of
new mown hay. Suddenly you realize
that the day is terribly hot and sultry.
There is a stillness in the air, you
glance around and .away in the west
you see a small dark cloud, In a few
Minutes it has grown considerably
larger and blacker and you hear a
rumble. It comes on faster and faster
with each succeeding minute, By this
time you have hitched to the wagon
and are making an attempt to get a
load on before the storm breaks, But
alas, you remain in the field too long
and you and your half load arrive at
the barn thoroughly drenched, The
Test of your field of hay has suddenly
lost its sweet aroma. and also half of
its nutrient value,
:harvest time -arrives, you have a real
mike crop and as you proceed with the
cutting a sense of real satisfaction
steals over you, Here are the fruits
of your labor and in A . week or two
it will be garnered .ila. hen threshing
time conies, a neighbor down the road
is threshing tomorrow and of course
asks for a hand, This .neighbor for -
some reason has neglected to treat
leis -grain and as a tottseqinace his
vain is badly infected with smut, Ile
-also managed to grow a bumper crop
of thistles, Needless -to say you Are
in for a -dirty -barn threshing.
You get along fairly well until
is time to have supper. When you
discover that you are not hungry,
Don't feel very well, you say: there
are still two hours to go. At last the
days work ends and you proceed
homeward, but conscious of the fact
that there are still 7 cows to milk-
and' a lot of hungry f elves and pigs
to feed before you can bit the hay,
You finally complete the chores, wash
up and are ready for bed. By this
time the threshing dirt has done its
work, your stomach feels as thought
it contained a ball of lead. A nauseat,
ing feeling comes over you, then the
chills begin to chase -up and down
your spine, and you chill and shake
and shake and chill until the plaster
almost loosens on - the wall, After
rolling and tossing for a long time,•
you finally drop off to sleep and dream
of the coming tomorrow,
Next in • line comes - silo filling.
This is one of the jobs when men can
show what a good healthy appetite
can do. The pumpkin 'pie -do surely
catch grief at these corn bees, When
the days are warm and dry all goes.
well but it so happens that -occasion-
ally the, weather man sends along a
nice fall of snow and what fun it is
hugging an armful ,of -corn that has
been well soaked with snow and the
temperature dropping lower and lower.
When silo filling is completed you
begin to think about your fall plowing.
But your good wife reminds you that
you must pick the 'apples before the
winds and frost have done their work.
So next day you spend picking apples,
The day passes without incident until
you ascend the ladder to gather in a
particularly nice bunch -of /Syp's as the
basket is being filled, and your
thoughts are of some incident which
happened last year in the city. Sud-
denly one of the ladder rungs on- which.
you are standing snaps in two, and
you and the basket make a rapid des-
cent to the ground. But this time you
escape serious injury as the only part
of you that is hurt is your dignity.
Next morning you take the plow
out of the shed, put on a sharp share,
hitch up the team and begin your
plowjng. This is one of the jobs
which gives you plenty of time for
meditation. You are plowing a 40-
rod stretch, - taking pains to make a
real good job. Your furrows are
straight and even, and as you plod
patiently back and forth, a feeling of
happiness and contentment steals over
you. At six o'clock you unhitch and
proceed homeward, thinking of the
lines, "The plowman homeward wends
his weary way". Yes, you arc tired.
but that is not a surprising fact as
you have walked 15 miles during the
day and have plowed 1 3h, acres or 10
miles to the acre. You put your
horses away and proceed to the house
for supper, but disaster is dogging
your footsteps.
Your flock of sheep have come in
from the pasture and the lord of -the
flock, commonly called Billy, sudden-
ly appears around the straw stack and
decides to put a little more pep into
your stride, He backs up a few feet,
braces himself and comes at you with.
all the ferocity of a Russian tank.
you suddenly find yourself floating
through space. When you finally
come to the old Billy has disappeared
and you think "what a grand climax
to an honest days work." Then sup-
per is over, and the chores done you
retire, As you lay your head on the
pillow your thoughts once more revert
to your plowing. You have 34 acres
to plow yet, 10 miles to the acre. Yes,
thats it, with the comforting thought
that you have just a -mere 340 miles
of patient plodding ahead of you and
the Mewing will be completed, you go
to sleep.
Now dear cousin, I have enumerated
to you a few of the things which
happen on the farm from time to time.
This is not a fantastic picture, But
experience -is 'the best teacher, So I
would suggest that if you wish to get
the full benefit of the things which
you can surely learn from experience,
just plan to spend the next five or
ten years of your life down on the
fatal,
Your loving cousin Rastas.
A social time was spent after which
lunch was served, The next meeting
will be at time home of Mr and Mrs,
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Howard Campbell, The social activi,
ties' will take the form of a musical
contest between the ladies and gerita,
HIGHLIGHTS OF
THE LABOR CODEr
Main provisions of the labor code
tabled Thursday in Ottawa by Labor
Minister Mitchell are:
1, Establishment of a Wartime
Labor Relations Board comprising a
chairman, vice-chairman and not more
than eight members.
2, Certification by the board of
bargaining agencies representing the
majority of employees in affected in-
dustries,
3, Compulsory negotiation between'
employers and certified -bargaining
agencies.
4. Conciliation procedure if negoti-
ations for an agreement fail,
5, Prohibition of strikes during the
selection of a bargaining agency, nego-
tiation of an agreement, conciliation
proceedings if necessary, and the life
of fhme agreement after it is adopted.
6. A definition of unfair practices by
employers, and employees and unions,
Penalty Clauses Include:
1. An employer' who causes an il-
legal lockouta fine of not more than
$500 for each day of the lockout.
2, An employee who strikes illegal,.
ly—a fine of not more than $20 for
each day on strike.
3. A union or other organization
authorizing an illegal strike—fine of
not more than $200 for each day of
strike.
4. Persons or organizations contra-
vening any sections of the code for
which specific penalties arc riot pro-
vided—a fine of not more than $100,
against an individual; a fine of not
more than $200 against a corporation
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Persons offering bribes to those
charged with administration of the
code or officials who -accept a bribe—
a fine .of not less than $500 and not
more than $5,000, or imprisonfent for
not less thas six months and not more
than five years, or both fine and im-
prisonment,
JAMESTOWN
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I told him my nickname he started to
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Nazi May Quit Northern Finland
Stockholm, — The Germans are
taking steps to receive important forc-
es in Finnmark, the northernmost
section of ,Norway, leading to a belief
they intend to evacuate the Northern
Finland front, the newspaper Dagens
Nyheter said in a story attributed to
private sources.
Finn Peace Bid
London,—Finlanch appeared to have
made her bid to 'Moscow for peace,
and although there were indications
that her terms were far short of the
Soviet demands, heavily-bombed Hel-
sinki seemed eager for compromise.
Canada To Loan Britain Officers
Ottawa, — A large number of Cana-
dian junior officers will be loaned to
the British Army under a plan to go
into effect immediately, Defence Min-
ister Ralston told the Commons,
O.A.C. Buys. $18,680 Bull
Perth, Scotland, — Ontario Agricul-
tural College, -Guelph, paid the highest
price at a sale of Shorthorn bulls when
a representative bought -one from a
reserve cliartinionShip group for 4,000
guineas ,(abour $18,680). The bull,
Uppermill . Royal, 'born Jan. 25, 1943,
was bought from James Durna. It is
the get of Addle Conqueror and Rose-
leaf.
By-Election March 20
Toronto, — Premier Drew of On-
tario announced, a by-election will be
held next March 20 in HaIdimand-
Norfolk riding to fill the rvacancy left
by the death last week of Wallace W.
Walsh, who had been elected as Pro-
gressive Conservative member for the
riding in 'the provincial election last
August.
Preserving Monuments
London, — Lord Simon, the lord
chancellor, said that while every prac-
tical step would be taken to ensure the
preservation of historical and aulteral
monuments' in fighting theatres 'no
consideration' would be allowed 'to
hamper military operations for quick
and complete victory.
General Alexander Confident
Naples, — British and United States
are Winning the second round of the
battle on Anzio beachhead and ulti-
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HATS OFF
TO THE WOMEN!
No, it isn't easy to run a house
in wartime! And we men can
thank our wives that the sacri-
fices we should be proud to
make are as light as they are,
So if, sometimes, meals strike
uses a little dull, Let's remember
that they would seem like
banquets almost anywhere else
in the world today.
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HELPFUL
HEATING HINTS
Now a regular
feature of the
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Friday
9•00 p.m.
(Meant for last week)
Mrs, Edward Jacklin spent a few
days with her daughter, Mrs. Frank
Graham near Fordwicla
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Holt
recent visitors with friends in Gode-
rich.
Miss Margaret Beattie spent • the
week-end at the borne of Ma, and Mrs.
Stewart Beattie of Wingham;
Mrs, Earl Baker and little son Bob-
by, is spending sometime at the home
of Mr, and Mrs. Edward Jacklia.•
The Jamestown War Workers held
their meeting in the hall on February
10th, At this meeting tea was served
by three ladies of the group, Mrs.
Melville Dennis, Mrs, Louis Frain and
Miss Mildred Turnbull, A bale was
also packed with the following: 3
sheets, 1 pillow case, 2 pair men's
pyjamas, 2 men's night shirts, 2 boy's
shirts, 4 pair ladies' pyjamas, 2 ladies'
nightdresses, 15 ladies' slips, 1 pair
bloomers, 8 girls night dresses, 2 girls''
slips, 4 ladies skirts, 1 girls' jumper,
30 pair children's bloomers, 1 child's
sweater, 12 pair socks, 1 pair mitts,
1 pr. gloves, 12 quilts, 1 cape,
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