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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1940-06-13, Page 2ro obtrit ...is...TUZ GODE441011 $IGNAL AND TUE GODWWII altraeM' PahHilted by Signal -Star Weak Limited* liVeat altreet. aloderieh, ()uteri° TR GODERICH SIONALZTAR Carrell 11101 on tile War ."` HISTORY IN TUB /IMMO No matter what may ItapPen In the mouths before us-eand there will be to, great va(l crashing evellta-ay0".• .'The Western Fair at Lonaen. has June of 1940 will be ontstandlog ih been cancelled for this year -the arst history or •eenturies .te come. 'Ich,a time, The Free press ,saye, since it was t I i aatloa at 4011=4 and Bel' heangurated 'The fair grounds half the youth .of Gerestany."' A ter- rible aceusation ; but islet it terribly trite? bru a a gitun,; the betteyal by the Belgian :King Leopold: ef tite Allies whom. he , had 'called to his eta; the bereic eseacu- etion- ot.00,000 Allied troopS atDune kirk; the titanic battle 14 the north of • France, the' ittoSt trententious conflict at, arm$ sinee the dawu of time---ithese, events crowded into a few brief weeks will. form a•llmarit adfrorld history Otte might mention. aleo Ita1 en ' trance into the. war; but thase-though it may have far-reaehing consequenceS. , , fMly ,an incident in the struggle bettWentlfiflataitigtatileestalleart We are living in great times, For those wit° ate aetaalla 'ettgaged 111he thght—eoldiers, setter's,- and ales:eau, military 'strategists and leadersthese who are reSPonSible for the mainten- =ice of groat armies in the fleld—they „must be 'd.y.a • of 41.:linest intolerable -Ora*. -Theeare days ef_anxietY, too, for these who "carry on" at home, waiting fasir news ef ltaftle-andeforttiti- ings of lovetl oites in peril The least those of us' on the aeme front can do. is to refralarfrom useleos fretting and .frotn,'IraPetent eritieisme and ques.tiofl- . hig of these who- aee,direting affair, to maintain a cheerful and optimistic eittlook, to refise to be bekten. The, ' it -tench.- are doing' -magnificently; the .0ritisk are unconquerable.. There may :be further incidental, iliSaSters; but fowl or later the tide -‘will ,turn. and victOry—a" smashing, . Overwhelming • at the queen'S ,Vark, are, HOW heinfi used as a military•eentrea et 0 The Comity, Counell's Phaeasloatgo Polley is admirable but Otero can be no reasonable obieetion to a departure from it ifor the voting Of contrthutions for war purpe.ses„, If money will put Hitler and. Mussoliniout of business One day sooner, it Will be well 'worth while to •borrow it. . • • Sir Stafford Cripps, who has gone a -S1:Zo'sTeirras"I1ife British Crovernment, is a Socialist of most advanced -type.- That -he-has- been ch,osen for this important and, delicate mission IS an indie,ation (4 ,the thoroughitess With which. Britain has forgotten politicar divisions IA the determination to win the war. - * * • Even.' Lindberghte mother-in-law is against him—on- the- eplestion American interest in the war. Mrs. Morrow has made a publietappeal for 'United IStatee aid to Britain. and Franee, because, she says, a German victory would mean that "our peaceful J. • wee of life will heendangered for a generation at leash" - . • • . • .A Sydney (A4stralia) Journal ac• -:euset minIstry• of `.`complacency* and points. t� Canada's .exaMIAe in pouring air crews ,and* planes adross PATRIOT • 'Last Saturday evening there was the usual crowd at 'Tim. taurPhyat.Store in the village, The -tothha; Of foal vvea- tter (bent, ho .-ever, that_sthe throng had moved from arotmer the pot-bellied iron stove out to ttte front veranda. There wee quite a crowd in the village, and the econvereatioeat fleet was, brokenupt and metered — , with SOmeone stepping to chat or 'aslt a -question or trY, to &eta, horse. • Gradually the'crowd. narrowed down With some drifting along down to the dente hall in the old ekating rink and others, with their shoppieg donee pro- eeealtig,to go home. There were about eight of lefts Wilting ebout nothing letaahtleular entil teimeone mentioned tae war. Thea it etaeted: It sSeeme•d that each one had a euresfiremethed of winning the war. "The Governineet Mutt doing the rightthing," declared my neighbor "Higgius. ',Way don't we get an agatY big enough to 'bleat that -german one te pieces? Then go rand clean it all up.,, eseTaut-waseloalleheiteethetopinioneeift ethers:- One of the etore-verandah. 'strategists even saggestettlaking over (sized bombing 'planes • ,ettd-. espraying gen/line over the vatole of Germany, just as they spray Mast on eietto.n. Taen he concluded his suggestion by saying-, "Light the gasoline and you could clean the whole place up for all time to come." • Others were out-and-out pessimists, 'defying even the risk of being informed on to •predict direthings for thoSe fIght- iiig•-the' evils of a- land -crazy dictator. They Were all for 'peace at any price, and then a determinea drive to build up•armaments great enough to outclass any power in the world. - • Thus it ranged up and down the veranda. Each man with his own op- inion, and some out-and-out foolish . . . and others showing genuine sparks ot,intnition. , • , • ,; , .peter :Samuel was .sitting quietly, stoking away on that great calanksh'of his and taking it all in. •Someone 'Sala "Peter, what do you thii*ef it?" Btshy, eyebrows arched as :he paused to methodically tamp the tobaccee In deeper with a stubby forefinger before replying. , "Men," he • said, art long time ago I learned that it is foolish to say what I think about something of which I do not know well. 1 know my country ' is Canada now, and Whereet was beta, in Liolland, has been over-runby a man Who I think as mad. "I •work hard every day on My farm and I grow food for myself epel ase family. I pay my taxes when the man coMesi around and...1 try to keep my wife and kiddies in elothesethatelgok good. Whenethe melt .come for money to "help the boys who fight I give- all I can, and I buy my,wife•yain Or she knits aockst and ranifiers.to send away. ,"On Sunday I go to church becanse I •believe in God. When I her men stand around after church and , say that the War is bad for us, and say how the men who gun the country make Mistakes, X Wender Why they go to .chureh. •Seteh things only, makea man feel bad; and when a man feels' that way all the men around him start feeling the same way. "Back where I was born my unele used to have many %men working for him. In the morning when it was early and many Of the men were cross and grumbling about' the weather me uncle . used to start, whistling, pretty soon somebody else would start Maybe somebody *would sing and S0011 they would all be happy: think it's the same nOw-.: I believe we will win the war, and maybe some- body. will 'Make mistakes; but if we all get thinking the Same thing about win- ning, I don't see how" we cnn lose. It a man minds his own intrt- of the works -and the other men do the same thing,t-everything- runs' _smooth and then nothing breaks and slows' .every- thing 'down." "I hictehasheeitt ourst „ . the Atlantie "at the utmost speed and with thenutmost' generosity" as one LOSS . CANADA - Canada has been. shocked,. by the iihich Ads:trait). must f011eve: . And - • here in Canada we, are tolds how much, Ho". abetter Australia is Mang than Canada. tragie fate ef ber "War Ministate Home talent is always discounted. Norman Regeri, ,who WitS killed bi an 0 • *, 'WHAT DILINKERQUE MOWS The retreat from, lalautlers ewe go dovat in alletory as a greater tour de 'form than the stapendoue battle itself. Dvidently the 'trapped arealea have 'been evacuated in remarkable,numibers, to the Somme front and across the :Channel; and as they emerge in geed order and with. high Morale from their desperate ordeal they tell us eometlting we neeL1. desperately tor kee*. They tell' ue . that the infernal erteelty neechaitize(1 warfare ha:; developed in raw, troops are: almoet superhataan capacity for resistances,' In great pert the survivors of the fierees,t battering ever endured by man, are .young melt untried %soldiers. . Tbese are the boys wilts receivedtheir baptism of. tire in the hell of Flanders and who mute out to asaare us that the latest and most pewertul meehin'eS. of de- stractien can torture, can kill, ettn win battle -se -bat 'eta:met eotieuer man.: • The result not., only ,of tae .hteX- pliea.ble break at the Meuse, but of a tragic raleconception of the nature and ‘tempo of modern war, this retreat is neVertheles$ a1 elale of human heroism. For .tbe alereaans, .as they admit, at has dispelled the illusion abet the British Tommy has lost his fighting spirit. For the Allies it has dispelled 'elnally_dangerous 'illusions* They had settled downtoe-WgebrgraeTItt' by military inactivity into a belief that time and the blockade could wear down the enemy. They lacked tieltheit airplane acciclent on, Menday as , There is a great call for ,skilledymen for war enclustries—thatchinasts, en- gieeerseexPert teadeemee of allthinds. ph.ysique, Mr. ;Rogers had ,W'orked • around for years, more intent .upon 'war, effort; and his death' Is • a national was trevelliegefrom.Ottawa to address , • it meeting in T6ronte.' Though of frail 'tremendous' ly in directing Canada's MaWT, tellOWS-Y?' bave knocked . _ having a goodatime than upon learnin loss. . • . _ .. g anything, must' realize that taey have Mr.•_,Rogers ha.d sent on ahead of lost an opportuaity. The world has .a him, for Pressexeleasehea, c'OPy of, the place4or skiff and industry ; the Un-• address he was to give, and tile con- • skilled must always have a precarious cluthng•Paregraph -of this _ sifeech •- should • be an. encouragement to tan- "vlug- — • .adians eYeriret"ere' 1;-salcia that at Ga7iltalcii,'. ree.' t — You will •fel, perhapse that X • • st have stet brought you good 310WS liberator of I:taly,ltronounced a curse today. - The. seriousness ofs the upon any Italian w should refuse' to eeteationateasenot warrant the ea- ' aid gngland in any hour of need. Wave- . pressien of optimistic platitudes. ' Garibaldi' was fighting, in tee middle It is better to 'face grim realities . - ' let hs never lose tor a moment our despotihm,:the British gave him strong •-supreme confidence in ilial vIcterYassistance, and Italy and Britain were • Our clearest light et this time Is . line friends until Mussolini mine on the unclying eortviction that the the scene. Italy's intervention in, the forces ot. tyranny and oppression e.anetot prevail. History can show " Present" war Amy result in the ellmin- us blacker perlike of depeessione titian' ofthe'Fascist leader and the . There ttave been timest-when, the, restoration p -ti the ,hoed relations that . oppressor's might has held almost formerly ertsted. the whole world in subjection; ,stiad when the outlook of those who have 0 * * *. , freedemign.Ust have been filled with Announcement was made last 'we'ek ieair jtUt that -what, is wrong " f ' rem tWaehingten that •after *July 1st can ever amome right by virtue of ' passports Will . be . required - of Can- eonqtiest anti, f•orce : a arms, ' is - wholly •unbelieyabte. 1Vhether it acliatts—as well as of Mexicans, Olbans . _malt courage and resolution of the last centurY, to free Italy from , ' But Le this month or this year, next. and others—crossino•,. the horde' t 'the , r o . year or later, so long as we bold United States. The step is•bering taken fast tat the faith that Is in ut and to give the United States authorities a labor a-unceasiegly .. for , the, ideals that are dear to us, soenee or later further check on `cfifth column." *ac - the vrotld a reason and humanity tivitiee; So far there has been no in ' • will be restored. In this 'faith we (b•eaten that 'Ottawa w • ' - ill impose a will fight on; we will endure, and . similar -ruling leetbe case of visitors to ,we will winthis. country from. the United States. No 'announcement lute yet been made Any discouragement -of tourist traffic is sif the expected Cabinrrangement et rea week strong ne,val forced were abte to °petite euccesefully in a vesitriated area desiate the beet efforts of German aviation, ie eh, This means, a. great deal and may have a direct hearing on the! prospect of -an atteinpt, by the Germans to in - trade Ungland. The Germans haurtot Obtain Succes$ In altigland by landing !few parachutists here and a fete hutadred men from Motor boats there. To taptitte Ionaou, Hitler has got to put 4 force Of at least 4,00,000amen 4)11 English sell end potato's he has got to put tha.t Many in one place, That Wane many ehipe to Jana the Men. and heatlY shiPs to Iseep them supPlied. If tatBritish rutvel force tan stand me. VessfullY eff-Duniesrame, it :ought to be able, to ao tae. same, off Harwich or If the .Britishe fleet can dee that, Hitler gaenot euceessfelly invade gngland. No one doubtsthe Germans Cali do an enormous amount of damage, Oh Eiiglish soil. But between tleft and conquering England 'there Is ahig gap. —The New York Times. "NOW" (Typieal of the yews .4Imost every- where expressed in the press of the United States, from East to West and North to South, during the, pat two les,':heitie.thieseeditogialeefetunet-Mhe Christian Science alonitor, ofBo.) .Titewretehed reeved of the last ten years es -spotted -with-the- Wordsr"Too merimein *mai eirrak ttituNterred tbe *Bair fittAirenovatt and in nu* bersithhitaWtetitee 04,47 ttirlt the -tide, %hey laity eaYe the building of Outset - an& planea latereeaud the lives. of FIGHTING FOR SURVIVAL * The British people are fighting for survival. For the first time in our his- tory Mr. Chureltill made that word the keynote of his ,aeldrees to the Commas as- the.nation's eaPtairt in Vale etrugglta No one Wee estonisbed. If there were slow mils that felled to geasp the meaning of our defeat In NOrway,, tbey understoed what faced. us when the German armies ewept across the Dutch and Belgian frontiere. • Hitler defined his aoSitive, plirpoee in this •war in the remarkable proclamatam that heralded this. inetagion .1., 110, Is fightle; 'for "the consolidatiou Env*" against the, 'two pawere lie accuses of Posing Otis. Ideal, Ile, have for- gotten that Henri IV waa the, first to plan It, gad that Napoleon nearly aeldefed it, There le ,this to Said for Napoleon: that lie recognized: the hataaa equOitY of the people, 'wheal ;he forcibly liberated from feudalism. A Nazi "consolidation" pf Europe *Mad mealeethe Subiection ' of many helot races to One mastek-race. The will of tails- nation is that our civilization 'shall survive, It gam us' laet week what we ought to have lead many smontae ago, s a truly national evernmehttetertatentehlletellanhtstelhate erisis of destiny faced us, we •recOg- eized.' that as lighting .leader Mr.; .Churchill is -- the best man. -available. the *mean - uored.eternaination to fight to the end, late" Too -late at every step have, Five years agograsped but only the searing realization of the been the. democracies' measures to deal ing of air -power and gave the.warning thing they were up agahl$ti NOV they with Nazism- by the only method it that evla Baldwin 'heeded as little as knovv.; _they cannot be surprised nor ehaerstands—force 'German. rearitia,- his disastrous:. sueeepsors. come batted -the follies of appeasement and understood the necessity a bringing Russia into our eoalition. To hie capa.city for leaderehip falls the task Of iroprovistug amid the struggle tee means of defence that •leis ferestght would have given us betimes. We are quit, under him, of the eomplacency thee kept our, efforts at hal-pressure, for we, hairt faced the fact. stleat tae supreme 'ordeal is actually upon us. - Mr. • Churchill -has become the, eymbol Of the atilt to resist. • • --Tlae, Statesman and Nation (aion• don ): • ' ' HOLLAND yviu, LIVE ikoAiN From her exile in 'London Queen Wilhelraina has atked her tricken people to "remember calamities in past centuries and„the 'repeated resurrection °them* country." The Duthh have to tin gogerh, place; bet hemmer to be avoided if possible; but of course suceesesia• r may be ibere Wifl .hemath national eafety Muet be the paramount lds considaa.etiote the memory • of the; gallant, self-sacri- tge ficinman who In •the early date' of ,the _ * * war prepared for Canada's Whole- iiesteor Fiorello La- Guardia of New Yoty, is of Italian- parentage, but he hearted partieiaation'In the struggle. t • - has no hesitation in eondemning Italy's -action- in making corunon rause- with ALffietilinitAO esteatt beta sub- jected the Italian People to the seem of the warld. "Never before," declared the eery New Yorker, "have centuples of civilization been euddenly stopped by the ambitionof one ladividuel and a nation thrown he.elt to a period a barbariseat `'lttiever before bas a natio that has ,acquired the rank of a ar,st, gate power teat that power by theeaet of ttne mart. Italy irow, becomes a, vasal of Hitler." • EDITORTO __NOT.04 . vithatta da. troable dat latissalint getting yeti into I." * ' you cannet do anything else to help, buy 4 war saviage certificate. Oanediana are not Afraid of Mtis- aolinae roaring:: They have heard Niagara Fails. , • * • , A big Strawbovy eroto is ineletospeet tithe district—if uo bombers. cattle ester to eiatil It. '', • * * • 4he Canadian, nayy is 410i1lg:g00a. 11Vdrk in st, surprisingly large 'Way. It Ss no "titipet" navy, * • * , Buy 'War ga,vings eertifleatee and eend it fioelt oft "silver huliete" to aid the man in. th6.11fing , Xent ,CountY CoUnell ASkS, that only the English and larenelt languages- --be allotted. in Canada. What, rte Gaeliel * Itfueeolini Wilt linti Ittlaoplaa, in late wood-pile—sane. hundrede Of -romottrts erg -littera-site sfahtethitilletal hungering for retenge„ tit * Lord Beaverbrook ?4/IYA that for the prise Or Paris "the (*Man Fuehrer *multi Ant ihO thrOttflA of mote than stampeded. again. No one who has been on both sides of the line can doubt thet the, Germanstwereeat the: apex of their power in the first spurt while the Allies, . lMe an 'engine .canght in low geat, are at the beginning of their . drive, * * The remarkable success of the Bri- tish and French' in getting such -a large Part of their forces taway through Dunkerque may have many lessons for the future of wee. This evacuation. was made poseible by the co-operation of the British and French navies oper- ating oft the.port. The gunfire from: the ships enabled the Allied troops,to .bold Dunkerque during the' crucial: period. ,That is 'a new chapter in the story of the sontest between kir forces and sea forces. True- enough, the fleet had the protectibn .of- the British air force, but the fact -tem ment, the Ithinelend, Austria, Sudeten- land, Prague, Itlemel, Poland, Norway and Denmark, Belgium and the Neth- erlands --all along the line 'the forces lighting aggression have been hehinda * Is America, going to continue the process.? Already it is beginning to pay for failure to support world 6tabil. ity.by easing economic strains and pro - meting. cdllective otecurity. Aggression which Might have been- prevented er curbed by- small measures taken early now forces gigantic measures and ter: rifle cests. And for the United States the costs have Only begun7--nnlesS there is quick and succesSful action to stop Nazism, • But a stitch in time might still held together the tattered fabric ,of the world we have known. The issue may' •be decided- in the tia.ext meeth or tWQ. -And from all reports the vital material 1111111101)44,T, JIMI1 1304 HMO how to meet it with. supreme herolgul, alley uow tit*, IirrThilPeet Mere terrible then a.ny since the days of ralifp - Spain, They aro to be slaYee of it eyetem which they loathe to the ilePtits of their eottle. Thee will eee their • liberties trampled, their riches Plana- ereqi their whole way Of life eeteehe All that will iceep hope, alive is the knowledge that others. will hie fighting until the clay of liberetion Choate. lavents la the battlefield will eroved. upon one pother so fast in the coming daat that =the fate of liellafid may lee overlooked,' No news will come front there,' no reliable word of the spiritual aita phyeteal terments tam Detteh people e, will have to undergo. Tbeir coatacts ,with the outer vvorla will be brekent for pelsea bars have ,been Shut neeti them. 'But they will not he -forgotten in this country or in any eountry where 'feeedom etill survives. One can Only • thape tlaat their spirit will not be 'brawny that their citteS and thou, countryside will not be ravaged beyond , repair, and that QUeen live through these dark •days to re, eitter-herecaPital triumph, --,-The New -.York Time& Two magistrates were summoned for exceeding the spee,d Malt. And whoa they arrived, at court there were, no other magletrates Present, se they de- cided to try each other. No, 1,Ivent en the ,bench and the case proceeded, • "Ton are cbarged with exeeeding the epeed limit. Do you plead guilty or ains that for a factor *will be .eontrolz-11-..the •aers” .knowa di,snter before and hgee anown ..--etteeteseeesee. "Yoe will be ctled (five dollare, .TheY'tlien -Changed places- and agal • _ the plea was "guilty." 4.11min," was the reaponse. "Now tligse gaseeare [becoming far too q,,O*. Mon. This is theSecond we've had this niorning. „Toil will be fined twenty' &Altus!' TIRED FEET— SELF-RESPECTING (Exeter Times -Advocate) e Last 'Meter the heavy fall of Snow effeetually shut off the usual food sup - piles of the pheasante, Very Properly thee lovely birds sought relief be eh - peering at the back doors of the farm- ers. Liberally did Tatum% rise to the oecasion, in the Itope *that not one. lite (14i their feathered Mania Should be lot. 'The pheasants, are HO piker, however, for as Soon as the -snow van- ished the pheasantgot of relief and maintained .themselves by tAeir own exertionFeatheriete _bipeds, 'Will_ he Well advised to poruler'the ways of the hirde; who, having no guide, overseer ROOSEVELT • (London' Vree Ptess) - The Republic enjoys the adm,inistra- tive leadership of a, remarkable man. The presee incumbent - a • the ,White House is proving himself a an destiny. For seven years his personal- ity as developed through his radio ad- dresses te the Aanerican people, which we In Canada Were also privileged to heare has seeped into the heart of the comatry. His common' sense,' his vision, hms. courage, his restrainthhis choice of words, his whole approach to the ques- tions of the hour, has beeti that, of .a man' destined to, lead a great -cause. He. has made theradloahle pulpit; he has combined, that voice of a political. chief with the ,spiritUal fervor of a meleader. Yetehiss-native shrewdness has kept hits feet on the groundlie has walked perilous paths with* amaz- bag deftnees. It may be more than mete coMeidence that both, he and Hitler -caine to office in Marci seven years ago; that • their careers . lative matched ea‘ca other', one on, the side te the humanities, the otheron the side of evil.. Fate prevented the setaesintt bullet, fired lit Florida seven years ago, from eaching its niarit. IIONV HE SMELLS! (laingston 'Whig-Stancl•ard) , Adolf Hitler' 'bee 417ovmd that hewill not ,take his infiform off until the war Is won. We eould have warned hint. about this sort of boaeting, There was 4 (Dion of •Spabe °nee Who made a similar vow regarding Vet chemiee. When ehe finally removed it a • eort ef ,coffee shade became fashionable, un- gallantly called "Isabella" after her. 'MEV WORRY MOTORISTE4 (Alteemte Gazette) 'Careless bicyele riders, used.to be the wort terror of motorists. But recent. ly another menace has arisen --the bo- or girls •ott skates Who weaire their way alone the ettiddie of a ,paved street; wobbling lie -front of apptoaatte ing care and cawing drivers to get "the nor ruler, never fail to provide for their wirld up." ' Own wants i given a fair eliance. ' • se e With, was waiste will: note sthe young_ folksittthe,farally. -With ih!"orogt-tilak-1\-110rwaY-5-`TI4P-,walt „ do not quarrel over who is to, have the inake.4- eaella4 tgraboeueLa— ear there is a family that is a family. Toronto Star. Detroit Free, lyrete, tets I The first kies is neatly alwaya "This is the worst toWn for gatsitir ateldent. The injuries follow Nato. over lived in." matically. — Quebec' Chronicle -Tele-, "Irm Whed have' yon been doing?' VAPh, ....while you take a lifetime holiday from kitchen heat and toil!, tO the family's three.meals,a-day keep you capdve in the kitchen? Does long, tediousvaiting for water wheat slow up your daily house- work? Let thrifty, modem I-FMR0 electricity take over these two big jobs. First . doide to buy the 'clean,- cool, modern Electric Range you've -always wanted now—let it cook thi'nieWsautomatic. ally, while you take time out to enjoy tile summer surt. and fun. Second 1ea Hydro Water Heater give you hot water 'on tap"— ready whenever. you need it. 'Phone your local Hydro olfite today for details of the Hydro Water Heater Plan. Decide right now to,getfyour ' share of summer pleasure --and enjoy a lifetime holiday from hou4$'-'r hold drudgery with low.cost Hydro power doing the '"2 big jobs". • THE H:YD*OEtECTRiC, P R COMMISSI II OF orrAitio