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WING TUE GODERICII SIGNAL AND THE GODERIVII STAII
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PubliShed by Signal -Star PK'S% Liraited,
Wet, Strcet,.. Goderiek, Ontario
T ItiltSDAX,,MAY 9U,1U� ,
Ali ALLIED SETBAOK
New S Of the withdrawal of the Allied
tomes. front all but the Narvik. area a
NOrWay earue as a "profound shock -
t4 *se Att. Chamberlain's words-cto
the people of •Cceauda Ok
other,parts •at, the Einpire. The withdraWal„ after 'the high hope* of' Silk°
teaS that had' beef arori:sed, has ITO
a, Severe strain ulara the confidence of
the people in the leadOrshdp• Of the
Ampir0 ,effort to aehleve vietory Over
the forces' of Ilitl(aisra. •
On Tuesday' Prime Minister Chara-
berlain ftteed eritical House of Com-
mons as he 'sought to explain and, de -
lend his GoVernment's-Colarse.He
Oaid that the exPeditiOn to Central
NotWay yas undertaken eliiefirtOPre:
vent the utter. collapse a Norwegian
Mistance to the Gerinan .invad.ors and .
' r•'-'-'-'4'reP, EDITORIAL NOTES
, a
wagee, and tile same ehain of -evente
begins ,all over again. " --
Men who weee striking fol.° $2,a day
twenty -live years ago now fiad that
entirely too 14:)w. The increased
cost 'a livhig has gone a.round the
perilaps more than once, and the
only people wile have „bcitelitted, are
those wile, have peen able to keep
innip ahead of the 'reet ; while people
with fixed ineonies; or these, Wilo, like
tlie. farmer, eanuot Increase file price.of
PbilOsilerof Lazy Meadows
mity J 13031e
RICH SIGNAL -STAR
Current Views on the War
THE COLITMN if faitifiessne3-s was expedient.
Milliona of people, who have no Idea Mereover,tbe Germans Are A
,UNME NED where the words "fifth column" came people in whom the herd inetinet is
. from now leaew What they mean, Mere- paramounti Their idea of order is that
Practically everY 'farra has itri faith. bers of the fifth:column are traitors, of a blind and. coniplete 'obedience tO
fut old horse . 4 l'Ong retired frorale. and there is nothing' new about the authority—nOt individual jiyigment,
notmee plreed. Throughout the eges there have Nit syrrender of their entire, person-
iVe service but retained for lwaye en men wititingi as they ality into the hands of A leader or too, there is no split in, French public big; init when he
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al praeticea to whieh the Germans liaiel?hiiy watching foot•hlek-kihre-440v,..„0',-.
L thoroughly aciaatomed.--and playing darts in 'the Pif t ei a il
during thi/s periad of lime, and Until payin.' their Income tax, Itibbentrop
this evolution is aecomplhilied, forcible went °back. to GermanY. and said, ti,
etepe raust be talren to eusare that IIItler that all thie' Plglish were like
telliteoyozowitlhie,n;ettteoohaatiatetit thaegal)niso;14arsestsheoyf 1Nvvoroen, ilitthwer tb:adrleds twIlenel:tit• 1l(. )H
This inflexible determlnadiiii imPliee eC.4zmeelio:fielroYvakblav.clve. Ile* f'll4ced t"
Europe.
that grerinany•Inti'st lie reduced to mill- At that tOolcuent°,Tnan. Cthaamt bieiriltaiienr
tart impotence. On this vital point, 'was just about to eatell a rd 11$11 vc.tY
more than reasons Of senthnent Snell waited in adrid,,, to open the gates chief, Who lifts frem them the burden opinion anywhere, l
oposed wasatedrto pick. up another OOnntrY, he
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can well describe "(Jude Ned, to the enema'. 1
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' of responsibility and at the same time methods by which German froilitary ran very liard ' an aelop a,ne and
• house hi
m horse now iiely, Norway has denied .that the virtu- satialles their need of docility and MI- 1 impotenve can be Achieved vary accords( went up in (the .air, to the . g
6eutl.e--":7---ael aliv unoPPosed entrance' Of the Gernitia mentation anti,„Ahcprhuitive. raysticiem ing ta, the political parties. . . . But up, to drink tea With Hitler.- Three
1 -ie life of O'dRelily at. Lazy aleadoWs. i
1, forces at Oslo mid elsewhere was the whieh leads them to indulge in mole. 1-, whatever is the design, eterybody iii or four. .tiines he flew in that waY•
- I hadn't thoUght naiieb: abOut it until work of Norwegian, Nazi sympathizers. stroUSlY grandiese dreams. I the laud, inelinling the Array (I ern- But littler was a. big, utittrothi41 plan,
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tedaY. Abe, the "village bur everY;, “erinan, agents w<a.e.at work, and it is (c) Germany existed for a very ioug , phasii%e the,last three words because I lie was' alWaYS 1)1 11111 1ds• agre„ er •
thing Man," drove -11-,1 with his little 1111111 ti that Norway should. r)refer to period as _a loose 'confederation Of . have a very 1t (1 notion that the Inents, Goebbels Was verY 0 -ever alsoo
on Ifhe radio. If there
truelti After due dickering.and diseus- held them exclusively; reepeneible for nupaeroug little independent Oates, der= 1 ArMY will PlaY a rale' this tbne ila the I talking'. wind
stole- lie aciluiredsil•flUantitY of old bifie, the trickery that stilled the guns ia,the ing which perioa the interplay or re -.1 drafting of the, 'Peat* terms : the youugwas one Gernian -gel): with 'toothache
IOU arid rags • .' ,• 'a, badly cracked bat- dawn hotirs of April 0. But the 643. reiriouallsm and tbe conflicting. inttr:6tz,„ i . 101 I'S haw not the slightest intention In Czecho-Slevakiar he said 'that there .
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tery, and looked around the stable to camstantial story told by Leland, Stovve of the varioUs Princes Prevented them , of lettiog Germany spring' a --war en 1
,
toeratie old
'find something else. ' . and cenfirreecl by other neutral, observ" from vitalLY endangering , BuroPe. I them again In a decade er tivoY, la re-
, -Uncle Ned N,YaS COUtentedly tillgZling ors is uOt to be .diseredit3ed by a -mere :A.mong these states, aowever, one, sniVed tO take at least one preeatitiofl.
whatever it is tileY have to selle have fOr rnlied oats in the corner of the stctil A.nd .the existence icof a prusaia, was from, its very inceptien This 'Precaution'. eoneerns the suTireme-
'were 1,000 Germame dead. n y
the !German hearts became' very hot.
Hitler was then, -quiet', fer three
weeks, but then In the month of Anguar
° Da zi
(14111 h litth to bear the brunt. 1.)(1,', and belted tiP 111.9.11iringlY to see column Is no disgrace to a democratie the arebetype of the modem Significant'ilueStion of the Rhine, lie got 11P again, as ng
• who the straneer he i'Vee re, nation.' le is enlY a deadlY anger. istie state. • It rose to predoMinanee by and, is based upon the Plans submitted 'The men of Poland did hat, Want to
turned the look and aeked me to lead Norvray did net inti could. not eorab U( (4 caMpaigns rot. territorial: Ag, by Marshal Foch to the plenopetentiar- give hirn. Then, Goebhels tallred louder
Perhaps "sellie day a system will be b- d
devised tiratewill give everybody his the horse aut. Now' Ned was at One' the pro -Nazis out of its = population grandizement and beeause or the ies of the Inter -Allied Powers,in 1910-- wind 'on the radio. Then Tuau ChM -
fair, share et the Products Of the earth. time really ,»( (1111(11 of horae- withoutinter erine 11 th 1114 11fl( ti, t. P1.me
stige thus kgained, sa,turated the Un- PlitnS tO the ,unlimited mistor- berlain Ink 'Stand it. anY, longer.
In the raeantime mankind will continue fiesh • • • but" tile years have had their all its citizens, It permitted 'legal" intensely receptive German. peoples with, tune of 0 o e, were dis- threw' awaY UMbrella and
-with the-seramble-that---has-beert-Vilig.i:P44* , egect - o. and t0daY he 'walks 'Nazi a4 tivities. P141 ti in the loyal!, its cardinal principles: !. loveof war,- carded ' li1. elemeneeau ander Pritish bought a walking stick. !Ii-lso), all hiS
years upon him. rid American. pressare.r" "With: six fishing "finished. The English and the -
- Abe looked h•ini 'over critically' and i stances this course. Would have been not ,Dennuirk in 1864, 4ustria in
. eratie majority. Iii normal cireum- state above ail IaW-.' Tiiefti-trit- dereated-1,41visioas,'Ishe-WrOtes_ean _hold :the L,Frcifeli came to an agreeinent to help
lEfoe, ‘Rhlite. Then, we have nothing to fear,*1 eacii-citlier;.'if -the'-ttermans- went 4uto--,_
on since Noah's ark settled •on. Ararat. vvith . the intrerstakabile of ids. i7ealad-sober -settees-of. -its vast -demo, PreParation fat 'war, the placing -of :the it.
and make a.loas." .; democracy is possible only if -it has 'the enofigh to override all,,, opposition and Magter of the lihine, one is master of b t Hitler thought we were
There was only one
then said; To ..yon I give five dollars I only the liberal ' but the wise one; a And Vrance in 187'1, it became :Powerful and *e may. disarm:. Whfnii nue is
question. I asked, ' Foxes?" Arid when I uncoerced support ..„_of the majority. merge the German states in tin Empire, Germany; when orte is nii1 mater of
lk ,nodded assent, I led the horse back I When "do 'Circumstances ceage to be thereby achieving! tlie'palitireal- Unity -of the -Rhine,. ene iient-the_mercrof every,
into the stall andthen, as if compeosat- . normal? At what moment does it be= Germany. What happened then was' thing." •. Nobody predicted- more lucidly
hir, for even being: tempted, threw a : ecoMe neeessary to liralt the freedom the formation, in the middle' of Europe, than he What would happenif the
handful of relled oats into -the stall. „ I, of everyone in order to SuPpress the of the la,r,gest ahd mosteampaet ethnic. coalition Of 191.4-1018 -renounCed tile
!Somehow in those few moments -17 danger inrleing in a disloyal handful?. al agglomeration, with one Government, advantages 'Which the- tontrol of :the
saw a great, many things . , . of how 1.Norway.missed the Moment, lt, be- if homogeneous army under a single' Phine gave . to the Allies, • . , All the
prou&Ned looked' in .that rubber -tired., hared lige a decent democracy until -command, -and -tremendous-industrial signs* lralleate that whell this War' is*
buggy with the fancy dashboard and r after -Mt Nati. troops had marched resonrees eminently, calculated to in- won France will revert point by point
the red wheels and the tasseled whip 1 through the streets of .0Slo, like sohliers crease its capacity for aggression—te6 to FoCh's famOus note, takv. the Rhine
that Was never used , , . of how aristo- i parading on the Fourth of truly' ; the - • as her eaSterii iiiiliary frontier °,-*dehar
cratic he looked pulling up in front Of 1 peaceful crowds Watchieg, police guard -
the -church. on, Sunday when Father- hig .the way.
would let us out and proCeed himself The lesson of Norway Is being
to the church shed where the Sabbath. studied in every other non -belligerent
,ealm 'Was disturbed by men folks' .argu.- nation—by those close to the centre Of
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the making of a peaee .agreement
the 'N'Orweglan Oavernment with t _*ustria, Celeelio(Slovakia, , ?eland,
Nazis. The Norwegian, coMmancter-in, Fiuland, Denmark, NOrway—what
ehi'ef had appealed to. the Allies to at
'tack Trondheim, at all costs, and at ** 1°...., *-
though-tha risks attending an expedi- The Hon. Narman Bogota is in Eng -
bind at present, but „even The Toronto
than. to that paint were realized it WaS n•
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undertaken Tito Allied effert was de- Telegrrun can't „make usbelieve- the
leated by the rapid advahee of the ,Cranaaran Minister a Defence was the
Gerinan forces and the superiority of man .whe ordered ' the retreat from
the enemy's equipment, particelarly in Norway. ,
aircraft. British forces• still remained - , , a a ' .
in the tNarylir area, and from that . People are wondering if the British
point 'would assist . the - Norwegian
77. naval concentration in the Mediterran-
foreeS an- Carrying on the fight Against
the invaders. ' '
. .
Mr., Chaniberlahra.attileinent was atot
,received by the. flous$ With any great
degree Of . satisfaction; ... according to
-cabled- -reports, •-but the fact that . Mre
Churchill, vkaa to speak in behalf of -the
..(lotre.rninent of '.'ivilich Jae is noyv a
member fireVented a greater naanifesta.-
. thin of` disapproval:;.% It Wiis'atiptrileze
-"bY: the prime -34inieter, that , Mr..
, Churchill is h*ereafter to have a, general"
oversight •�f .alf, the BritiSh lighting
aeriices.
-*" It is not. expected (this :is 'written
while the debate In the British House is
rnflI prodeediiig) ,tbat the Government,
. be OterthrOwn. 'There seenis,
tO 1)4 no•alteruative.to*the,present
Goveranient 'so lang.., as the large Con-,
. 'ServatiVei majority in . -the House stands
' kr; ChaMberlAin. •,There a sugs
Option that Labor And Liberal, leaders'
be:taken-in to feria A coalition Govern
tient in.the,niamler of the war of 1914-
. • 18,- but it is • doubtfuLit Mr. Attlee and
Sir: „Archibald . Sinclair would eerve un-
der Mr. Ohanibertahl, *ho, with Sir
john Simon_ancl• Sir Samuel. Iloare, is
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'blamed fOr.,All the,naisadventures Of re7
eerit Years. "'Chamberlain, Simon and
ifeare"—they say in effect•--,"'preved
themselves disnial failures in the diplo-
matic struggles whip)). preceded the'
'war; rwhy should we have any ton-
fidence in them as leaders in wartime?"
e Another. question that has yet re-
.
eeiveci. no answer is why, the intel-,
ligenergervice, upon whic13. the British
Government spends inmense -*Shins„
failed; Utterly in the nuttier of the
., German attack.. upOn NorWay. Appar:
tatty' it kniew, .he mote about -what was
going ort. Thap. did, fitly quiet fireside
-newspaper.reader. on ,the ether side of
the -world. As Mr.' bhataberlain stated,
the Allies could not any event have
landed their forceS In Norway before
theY were. asked to 410 20, but forehand
,
knowledge of the. impending German
attiek <could have altered the issue *ery
"
The setback in Norway, however,
..iinust not be iawarded too.serionaly. The
%rat has yet hardly, *begun., * After
three years of fighting in, the last War
it !baked te some observers aS if the
illes were beaten; -lint they failed fa
ceunt upon. the forces' of, sea power
ad will power that were .working.to
wards the disintegration of. the. erieraY
'and the linal.-Aefory fesa the ,Allies.
• and , Praia* will: win _again.,
whether' under the present leadership
'or Some other,
making bluff,* and talking PlaYful
thlngs,.0'aw;itiaad411:.etphoteihaeNnvnad.sveb,senttgieur.It
eay the nen
there had not. eilough war things, '
The war en the sea has not developed
Strongly, because the Germans have
not !many ships, but the English ships .
tarel,so 'many that you cannot "count ,
them. At the beginiiing of the war the -
Germans had three pocket battleships,
-and sixty fish ships (stihnisrinos)• Ait_ •
ideology and -instructed in Prussian 'Ger,many from military and political the momelit the Germags have loat One
whole being pervaded . by 'Prussian
methods. From 1871 onward. there accesS to the Rhineland; oecupy for a' pocket battleship; its name Is the Graf
iousiy rapid and threatening develop- *years the Rhenish. provinces on Spee. It sank itself in the 'South At-
Gerniany, 'a pradig- span ot
ment of the doctrine a militarism, race she
the left bank of the river; and when *lantiel because it was frightened of
retires (as she will eventually do fighting with three British witiatcoat-
was,---throughout
' as little Wish as' the. Englisil pocket battleships. Of the fish ships'
,
ean. was to meet any peril there or to ments on everything from tropshe .to poll- tstruggle and those, like the United
diirert. attenti
. f7t
• failure -1» d
-...cs „.. ..alariding,, It seemed, on that itates, which still can watch the war
on rom lie
. ay mention ofreligion,- with some .sense of detachment. The
.
Norway.- Italy says she is not doing . It was so easy .to remember when 1 precautionary measures being taken
anything—whiele. may ermai not be was old enough to go* With Faflier. to aktrin direct proportion to the nearness
,
truethe •chureb, shed On. Sunday . . -, and of danger. . ; . Nazi methods of pene-
. --• .
it seems only yesterday to remember,tration work: That is the lesson we
. how someone .would make An, 'offer for have learned ag,iiiii , from the invitsiOni
Lovers of the wild flowers are being Uncle Ned, and Father would unbend of Norway. They work not only' in
warned against plueldng the flowers
of the trilliarre, which will,•soen be ap-
Pearing la the. woods, . Naturalists say
at prcking the flowers starves the
plant and if continUed will eiterminate•
it The, white Willi= As ' ,Ontario's
floral *emblem by official: decree and
sipuld be preserved frinirjpollation.
The Carnegie Institute <tins offered a.
reward of one million dollars' for -the
delivery of nitler "alive, WotrAded and
unhurt" into the custody of the League,
Of Nations. The_investment ;night be
turned into a profit if, after the de-
livery "alive, unwounded and rinhart,"
people were allowed to take a, crack
at the Fuelarer at say half=f1-dollar a
erack._ • •
* 1 *
It was understood that no new' con-
tracts for highway construction were to
be awarded this year by the Ontarroi
-.Government,, owing to. the .demands of
wartime; -but on 'Tuesday rannonuce-,
'ment -was made of the giving a eight
contracts, for a total of approximately
three million dollars, for paving on the
Queen Elizabeth way !between Toronto
.andNiagara1i11s. That part of. the
Province Is already well served with
highways, while this district has been
Whiting for _years for the pairing pf
the' Blue Water highway—and it would
not require three million dollars to cora:
Plete.ithe road from' Sarnia to Owen
iSound. • • •
• * • -•
In the elegance of his Sunday get-up
to pat the horse affectionately and say,
'could doultle that and still
'wouldn't be intere'stecrb
Just to think' of the clays ,When we
Would be away . •sand 1 whuld be
dispatched back the lane for the cows
. . and being -allowed to ride bareback
on Ned, ' it fertile imagination' could
even think up more atrocious- stories
of, daring than ever 'came out of a cow-,
boy magazine. Mad men lurking be-
hind such and such, a Stone Pile • • •
Texas Rangers Coming over the hill and
on nay trusty steed I was jeading the
charge . . . !bullets were nothing . • .
and • 'then . . "Whoo... :hoo-. t..hurry
up" •• . • <wauld come waftiag • •back
across the summer evening air and the
chase would have to be abandoned . . .
for the task 01! bringing the cows up the
lane. Ned was given' me to ride to
save time . . -but it always seeraed to
take longer: . ' • .
The day of the car game a.nd,Father
We are impatient these days, to get
the war newa-from limas the ocean;
what must have been the state of mind
of <the people of -those daya" hefare the*
telegraph and the -radio were kixtiwn,
as. they waited honie for Weeks and
months for iiewS; et • world -shattering,,
events not laalf.so far away? The issue
of the battle of Trafalgar,' fought on
!October. 21, 18c)'5, was not -known in
Englanit for over two: weeks, and prob-
ably the winter Was well advanced
before the intelligence _reached this
,side of the Atlantic. Before* the pre-
sent war is over We -may have the radio
giving na news of battle direct /ram the
flehLut operatiens. *
Countries with hugeWrinan minorities
or in semi -Fascist countries, but .' -'in.
countries with ail unmixed population
and With sturdy traditions of deMoc-
raey and liberty-- The lesSoli will lie:
a hard one, for Americans to take in:
•Some of us will dismiss' it as remote
and irrelevant. .0thers—more, „per-
haps, ---will wish to apply It in the form
of ruthless,' and iridikriminate repres-
sion. To ignore the activities of Hitler
In the United. States would be fatuous.
We have a fifth -cOliimir; its members
echo the Hitler slogan. and imiltate Isfazi
behavior, and they find suppert and
.backing in "respectable' reactionary
Circles. These • groups ,should„ be
watehed and their ' illegal. ,acts. re-
strained. We ishould Understand, what
they mean when they denornice the
"Imrierialist” .and "plutacra.tic" eneraies
of Hitler. But it Would as foolish.
to turn, on a- campaign of repression as
ti) ignore the existenee of- pro -Nazi
aetiviblea. We lutist fight to preserve
the democratic safeguarda eontained
superiority, and pan -Germanism,
'theraselVes for territerialeexpaesien, Or
minating IA the viSions of world liege-
inony whieli we witness tod0. Since
the hour witeri Prussia, engineered theA,
national unity of Germany, Europe has
lived alternately under the regime of
air armed peace with continual men-
aces, and that of war hi its most feroc-
iously, unserupulous form. •
•
HOW is Europe to be defended, ask
The ,o preneh, against the persistent
German madness,' and therefore -the
reVitittetit •Germairperilt. They- do not
doubt that Germany will 4,Inally be
beaten in the. struggle, but neither do
they doribt that, she is totally incap-
able of a^ spontaneous and genuine
democratization after defeat. Defeat
cannot destroy a inatienallemperament
and a nationald education Overnight
Th,e masses are not ---never 'have been.
I.mperialist firebrands
are legion in the ceilntry. German
, youth has beeir indoctrinated - during
the list ten, or twelve years with the
Most violent Nati propaganda, acquired
In Nati Institution'; s� the) generation
'the: Allies will..mainly• have to. tackle
is already-,fiillY' trained in intolerance,
fanaticism; Cruelty, lies; and the Will
to dominate.. Reason and experience
eoMbIne to show tharit-would be folly
to hope, for a*. sudden magical tans
The the German .spirite- or to
would Mutter :something :Of -which' We- 111 count on. Germany's willingness and
-caught just enough • to make Mother the. Bill ,:of ---Rights, while applying to abititt-to alter in the twinkling of
ai
smite and apt horrified, as a, car Nazis and then supporters the equally., .eye her mentality, 'habits and ambi-
Scooted past us. .SUnamer days a cloud democratic ,methods of exposure,rions, and, siniply because she loat the
counter-ProPaganda, and justified legal war. instantaneously become moderate,
of'. 4moke ' would come rolling back civilized, peaceable, • ..,Time_is needed
acroSs, to obscure our vision . . . but attack. • - ;
Nt4
—The 'Editor of ' The Nation (New(Newfor an evolution away from the politic-
. Ned , by then, would
ruling for ,rulin0 sake, or INindictive
reprisals) leavetithem in a state of en-
during autonomy., „
FrenChMe-Pr in The Nineteenth
.c,„. 77,
THE WAR THROUGH' NALAVAN
EVES -
-The London 'Times thus translates an
article in the,Malay language which
neatly appeared irrtne---Stralts.Tfines
at Singapore; ' •
Before this war started, Hitler and
his friends get ready all kinds of things
of wirelike rates, guae, aeroplanes and
tanks. Ile said to 1110 Germans, -alma
before butter." If a man asked for
'hinter, the Gestapo detectives killed
Jahn. '1» this Way the Germanswere
.frightened, to talk; even though their
stomachs were emptyo bf 1, yon -see-,,
ey wereeffialened of tbeing kllled
In this way the Gerraape•eountry be-
came ''Very strong. Thep, when one
man Met another, they did exercises at
each other and said, "Heil /The
eeriiian soldiers' hearts, became very
thigh and proud, and they were very
happy walking abaft like geese. .
But in England it Wag-a---differenit
thing, When Twin (Chief) Chamber-
lain finished lira work, he was very
ppy trying to catch the ash trout and
the red fish (salmon). in the river Scot-
land, or walking. in Hyde Park with
IW wife and umbrella. Ile was not
;happy stirring Up other countries. Ile
was a quiet man. The English people.
were not warlike,. either. They were
strike ont bravely and fearlessly as if York)•
-SaY. . . 'They re just a "fad that • • .-
will. pass away." - THE FRENCH POINT OF VIEW
Cheerfully . he submitted .to working Na divergences et Opinion exist in
as the eXtra horse during* seeding time the masks crf any elasa concerning the
afar Worked well On the 'harrows- or foundations.: of the French case against
some of ' the other light implements. Germany, The differences only relate
Time had a stiffening effect onlihn and to the prixetleat measures that should
soon he was used oulthy ete.„ as .a lad, be <adopted 'after the Allied victory.
to drive AO the *linage for something Without a clear Initial understanding
needed around the farm • . and later of the conception.. of Germany 'held'
came to the point where he Was never practically unanimously by the French
hitehecl, but enjoyed summer 'pasture, people, It is not possible to grasp en
and winter. feed . . . and although 10 tirely the soUndneSS of their Vett-maims.
outlived his usefulness *Uncle Ned will .The French argament. is ,baSed- upon
live the life of Oteilly' tintil the tamea threefold experience of Germany,
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STRIKES AND tfrii.AES
'The 'Farmer:a 'Advocate believes
that all Strikes Should be forbidden in
wartixne. 'A board of conciliation can
and shoulti settle disputes tetween
labor and emplOyers. ' 1Xore4(tier, the
ultimate consumer' is Vitally affected
and' hia voice Should be heard."
In this imperfect world it seems to
be impossible° to .settle such dlivutes.
so that they will stay settlod. It is
not go/lei:ally realized' that an inerease
of wages' whieh increases the .cost ,of
pie product, concerned automatically
increase's the cost of living for' all who
atie that product, and =lees 'then, too,
nave their wages - inereased, either
voluntarily or as the result of a strike,
Piey are in %voile position than before.
, In other words; -it
rather than,_the maTtfacturer 'or other
employer,' who ultimately pays the
wage4.
A goes on strike for better wages
And wins; B finds he has to pay more
for the,,artiele A IT employed to pro,
*tice„ So his wages haVe to be in-
A NORTHERN LAND -
(Vancouver Provinde)
The truth Is that ,while Canadians
know something about snow, they know
vory .little about the Artie 'regions.
And Norway knows -a -great deal. ----All
of Norway is north of 58 degrees; and
there are hardly any communities in
Canada so far north, Dawson Is only
at at Labrador I'S nearly alI farther.
south • than *hriy of Norway,.. We look,
'anon :itinclati as pretty far up the coast,
but Juneau is miles farther south than
aslo. Nary*, the little Iron or port,
scene • of important" engagements. be-
tween Ilritish and,Germans within the
.past week, is- far within the Arctic
'Cirele, somewhere aboyt latitude 60
as far north:as Coronation Gulf or the
month ot the Niffe4elitier and couaider-
ably farther north tbanIceland.
comes for him to answer the eall and hI stor1 ea1 psvchological and ,Polltieal
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move -on to eternal green paitures. (a) The 'French 'contend that the out-
standing feature of their whgle bistory
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ike.the effort to resist 'Teutonic' aggres-
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Thursday, !Miss Christina Grant, daughsion, and establishby some means or
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ter of-the-lato-ItmMcand--rso AleNander ethersecurity on their eternally re
Grant. 'Mr. Grant was the first minister carious Eastern 'horde& -WithiirlIV-
of Ashfield Presbyterian church, 1865: •memory alone they have .been at
1886 -
tacked three times—and twice Invaded
. '1".•0 funeral service was held on
mondl.y. in A:Shaleld ,PreSbYtetian on their own soil—by their Germanic'
'church, with Itex, Beynolda .Esler of. neighbor(b) They maintain. that the.
•ficiating. Interment 4Wa'S hi Kintalfpreporiderant psythologleal character -
cemetery. •
ASIIPIELD
ASIIPIIMD, May 7.:L -:Mr, -John UV -
fat of Teeswater visited ids aunt, .1liss
Annie McIntyre, Nat week.
Mr. ,George Itobertson 02 LueknoW
Spentert few alaYS hist week with---hia
daughter. 'Mrs. Neil (4, Mackenzie.
Mrs. Kenneth Parrish visited -her
in law, Miss:Sadie Farritili, Jn
Cloderich -last week. . • '
" Mr.,and Mrs. Itettry West and little
son, of ToeSwater,' Were recent guest's
at the home of Mrs. James West
Miss Itelen IlowIer; who spent the
past year in the ,Soutitern States; is
tr**'etI 1 has to Pay more for the, home.
*rticleft prodtwed by tpoth A and 13 -and Kintall 80 a
001 plyed, Vretve-schoel
spo hrtlAat Crewe on Friday'. Crmewon heitoonaroun
first game and (Hintail (the aeeond.
Int* binotelf tie better off than lie WAS Ofoith of chriska,
lrofore;so sten he strikes for higherpitsmett away in 1b1idel1da, last
Effidermy
ahoitt two of them?""asked the
druggist of the man who, was buying
a tootbbrx404,,m,glane for your wife?'"
"No, thanks... When 1 Inly a nevi one,
I always give her the 'old one,"
Ile paused while several other' eifs-
tomerkrin the store gasped, and then,
lie added: She Uses it to ,elean her
shoes." -
lstic of the 'Germans"; difilisklered as a.
race,. Is ininfotleration, inte_rap_eritteness,
excessiveness.. Evidence pfoves that
wheneVei a leader arose who incarnated
this distinctive German vice (whether
:the leader was a . Frederiek the Great
or 4 Bismarek,„ or a William II, or a
Hitler is immaterial), his 'people.,fol-
_sowed lirni„heart_ and Soul—and- that
his all, instantly and universally re»,
sponded to, Was always the same: the
call to force, to conquest, to ruthless -
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!three-quarters .are finished. Tuan
Churchill has captured them.
'When the War started the children
left tondon, Manchester, and Liverpool,
and other big places because they were
frightened :of bombs. Old men left—
'also, sick with the jitters. The cliljd- --
entwjIlve with thei, farmers.-and_."...4_
squires of England. At night times
now- all England is blacked out. If
men -want to sincike Cigarettes they
must do it Made the wardrobe. Also
It Is-Veryrhard-to find the public-hoirse.
**********., • Amosomi.
Ail .Tired Out
Before Day Half Over
:Women who -should be strong and
-- healthy beam° weak, rim dawn and.
worn out, and are unable to attend 1.
to that. household duties. They get
up in the morning dreading the
day's work ahead of tient)
Some disease-tostitutional
tuibanee 'has left :its mark in the ,
form of 'shattered- nerveS, impover- - •
ished blood, and an'exhansted con-
dition of the entire system.
Women will find' 1.111barn's
Health and Nerve Pills the remedy
they need to supply food;for the
exhausted nerve force, and one that
will help theiri bn,ekto soiled, perfect
health again. ,
. T. 1411bur,n Co., Ltd., Toronto, Ont.
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As announced_by the 1V1inistei of Finance, the -Foreign Exchange Acquisi-
tion Order, 1940, has been "enacted by Order-in-Counclunsler the authority
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of The War Measures 'Act. •
Unless exeniptecl_by the'0064 ever")i'4'eside.1.1t of Canada who,:on May
lst, 1940, has any foreign currencytin his possession, ownership or control,
, whether m Canula or outside Canada, Is required forthwith to sell such
foreign.:Ctirrency to an Authorized Dealer .° (i.e. a, branch of .4 chartered
. bank) for pay`Ment•in Canadian dollars at the official -buying rate of the
Foreign Exchange Control Beard.
"Foreign ciirrency",, for the'purp_eses; :theorder, means any cur-
reney (excluding coin) other_than Canadian:currency and includes bank
notes, postal notes, money Orders, cheques, triVellerst, Cheques, prepaid let-
ters of credit, bank drafts and other .similar instruments payable in any
currency other than Canadian currency, and also includes.any amount in
fOreign Airrency9f which a resident has_a_ right to 'obtain payment by reit-
of a deposit, credit or balance-6'fany -IdicrifTiVith a. bank,.savings
bank- trust' company, loan comffany, "stockbroker,investment dealer or
er similar depository._ _
The Order -doer not- require the -sale of any Ii5reliti -s-ctii±itie-s. -
The Order 'cloesiritot affect any -foreign currency, .deposit or securities
of any non-resident of Canada and for greater certainty the Order ex-
pressly declares that a non -resident -visiting Canada for business or plea,s-
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. tire for A period or periods net exceeding sir Months ht the year continues
_AoLlie..2-110i),.-XeSitlento_fer,...theLPurposes ,of the_ _Order_ miles& such_ person
enter i or has entered 'Canada with the intention of becoming a 'permanent
iesident
No resident is required to sell any foreign eurrency if he satisfies
the Foreign Exchange Control Beard that .he held such
n Ma ist, 1940, solely as triaSthe o AVIA for .a non-resident and that
.the, non-resident's interest therein had not- been acquired from a resident
since 'September 1.5t1i, 1939, except in a manner approved by the 13oard,
Under certain conditions Stipulated in Section 1 (b) of the Order,
a resident, who is not a Canadian citizeir may be granted exemption, but
only after application for exemption is approved by the 13oard.
• (From. Punch)
my love lie, has gone with the B.E,F, to wherei'er it le --they go;
And wherever it 1s It a shocking place for mudand rain and sno*-,,.
My lovehasa brand-new battle -dress which.the Government gave hint free,
Bat my love' he (would catch his•death of eold, he would, If it wasn't ler trie.
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tioniglif Of m'Y poer love's. chilblains (they're terrible Ones, my love's),
And I got some wool and a linitting•beek, and I knitted some -beautiful -glower
And I thoughti with all that standing ithOut my poor love's toes will frOeZer
Se1 made eix pairs of four -ply eeks coming right up over his knees.
Now ray love, 1 thought, will .be warm In his hands, My love will be warm in
hie feet,'
But he must be feeling a bairrIble' draught -where bis..mck- and -his' e6llar-meett
So I knitted. my love a muffler nbklt would go twice round his throat,
With alice„long ends' for my love to tuck dawn the front of his overcoat.
mat: for my love ht the Underground, thougitthe Underground's always full,
And I haven't room tor My elbows, and 'people tread on the 'wool;
That I've knitted my love a sweater whicb zips up close to his chin,
And I've given it lots a pocketo for in love to put things in.
I knit for my love as i wait for a bus, 1- knit on the District train, .
And the 11gbt ,o off, and the lights go on, and 1 lia.ve to unpick it a(ain; ,
1 lit I've knitted niy love it Inquiet, the way tlie pattern said, '
Which, se..v.cept.for his eyes and his nose and his raouth, will cover the Whole
of his head.
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I knit formy love the liVelong day, 1 knit Tar into the night;
I have knitted a mitt for my love's left ear, I am knitting 'one for his 1,1041
'1 WWI malw him some xnittens.,!and 1)041 goes, and then, so it seems' to nip,
My love will be as 'warm and dry as my love eau possibly be.
011, my love he has one with the 1U,, and 'wherever it Is they've gone
My love may find 'he is much too hot with only Ids uniform on; ,
But I don't think that Will matter, for I know that my love must know
It isn't because 1 want 10 fuss, but because I love Min 80.
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-No life insurance company ineorporated in Canada is required by the'
Order to sell any foreign currencyvhichitneedslor the -pUrpOke kite,arry:•; '
ing on its business outside Canada.
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Furth.er particulars may be obtained frein branches of chartered
banks. Any resident who has any foreign currency rn his possession,
*ownership or control on May 1st, 1040, regardless of ainOunt, 3hould con-
sult his bank at oriee in order to ascertain the extent to Welt heis
affected by the Order.
VOitEfGN EXCHANGE' CONVOL MAUD
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