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THE GOD:ERICH SIGNAIATAR
.0311r oberirtt toritti
*COMBINING THE GODEIttrill SIGNA vAND THE GOD IltaitlU STAR
Published. by Sao:lei-Star Pre^ Lianiteet. ;
• West iStrieet. Goderien, Outerto
tar
Tits slams OONVERENOX
COLLAMS
The Dominion-Prot/lade", conferenee
at Otte,wa laet week, called to 'consider
'the' ;Parole report, 'broke up:almost es
Soon as it began.° Threa the rrh-
viociall Prensaers-Rephorn tea °uteri°,
.Itliterhart .41,15ertd and Pattulto
British ,Polumbia---expeeesed oppesition
te the 'eeeoxemeralatiotes a the repert,
dad ae Creetical unauheity ef the Pro'',
eineea would be xtecesearY in bringing
4inch far-reaelfing changes into effect,
' and the diesenting ProviaciAl, beide
weueed ;te give ;any forther conelder-
Aden te tae r,epeet,„Triese at'f*iiiiSter
,aCiag brooglit the g,atheritig to a .ciose.
eluent •to eall the cOnferenee at this
time, but had yielded to. the pereuasiou
Of Miiitater Clt Fluent* vviao was
enthusittetically favorable tothereport.
This paper bad repeatedly expressed
,the 'opinion that no etrerapt should: be
made:. to bring the recommendations
Of ltlie report Into effect, or even • to
diseuss tliem seriously, until iftii the
*at. Snob, an attempt, we 'feared,
would create disUnity at a time wiaen.
unity ie eo greatly to be desired., This_
tear, It is new plainly seen, was well
groun.dect,' . The Occation has been.
seized by the Premier of Ontario to
renew his vemineaus, attacks upoo Mia
King and to Wake tinother exhibition
of bad manners, that in the minds '0f
many people offeets any of hie quailties
Ana otherwise they might admire. ,
Fluanee Minister Ilsley has collated
thetftae Peaeritt 'Government,
:order to raise.tiae reyeemes required 'for
the..earrying on Of lea war effort, May,
--nowt thatethe recomme.ndations
ate-out:of havo,, invade fields
-
of taxetion'that *hitherto have .been
left to •tbe. Provinces The Federar
Govieear trettent'e powers in this respect are
iot ihnited as are ,those. of' the Tro-
vinces. Vie people of Canada lraiow
that war expenditures inevitably are
very heavy, and that thy may expect
taxation: to reach heights never ibefore
•- known. this Country: We eannot
;see, horvever, that the task of raising
the 'eeepiired revenues will be •ap-
' PreolablY More difficult under existing
conditions than it would be under the
altered set,up proposed, by the Zirois
eOmmission----to say. nettling Of the
_.dietorbenee, delays and confusion that
would aceOmpany the imidementation
-of the report,at this time. 'The taxeg
*111 coni,.e out of the pockets of the
Sante 'people in Ana' case,
iSe, if Mr. Hepburn 'will subside, the
people ot iOntario an go °on quietly
and resolutecy with their business,.and
join with the people of the otaer
Province s in a 'mighty united effort to
help Great Britain in ,the great' peril
that confronts. her.
over to the BritiSh, bow-
eirer,, 'Would- have something to --eey
about that.
Says Tile Brockville Recortleilaud
Tintee: "The St. Lawrence may alwaya
be depended tietee, to ftleniela an aChual.
crop of ice, a factaivalett ehoula not be
forgottenewhen there is so email talk
about the river 'being eenverted into
a great. waterway for ocean:going
traffic and for ,tae ,Mevement Of war.
Ships." • „
*
The death of Lora 'Baden.pewell re
calls to memory the ,l3oer ,Wats ante it
*11 be pfintetest to many to know that
taere are in Gederiph four veterans,
of that sviat,e, They_ xaossesallerbejAalles
TOM. Pritchard, Ernest Laws end'
Horace Fisher. As these -are 'men stili
in their prime, they must bave been
inere steltabigs *when th‘y• enlisted as
solders of the Queen." .
e, GREAT, TEA.M WORK
History is being made across the
tbe wage-earner unless his wages" were °uglily conscions of the haircut. After
-order these days. Increased proportionately: - Higher' nerSistent campaign,' Father handed
-b
On alendaye.afr. atooseaelt took the pki iees would not benefit the producer
aa--Ia'iv-alden-tiaruath'-*°' ffie"kr-t-ile-tbar if the Cost of everything he had to buy
tune -the first time since the-Republie .
sliould ‘ be [correspondingly increased.
- was establiShed this has taken place. The finacial experts agree that a
Wendell Willkie, Mr. Roosevelt's op- n_. x Oderate expansion of currency is
portent tit the Neat -ember 'election; has needed from time to time to keep pace
:again defied the isolationist group ill WWI expansion\of- productionAd Iii
his ,ovynPariy by a strong endorsement
, ofthe President's aid -to -Britain policy.
air. Vilikie is leaving for Britain
to see for . himself what the situation
ia, .and he is taking with him.. a per-•
,. stoat message front President Roosevelt
' to Prime Minister Churchill.' .
Roosevelt and Winkle are doll* e
• great piece of team work to, ensure
that democracy eliall oot perish from
the earth. ,, •t
•
•
Hon. "JimMy" 'Gardiner. was bora
and brought up- Within a few miles of
Exeter, and many people down .that
Way know him, personally.' , Among
these probably is the editorial writer
Q2 The Exeter Thees-A„dvocate, who
in his Oolumn last week had the fol-
lowing:
"Have yon overalls?" a delegate to
the farmers' gathering held last.Friday
in London shouted at the Honorable
as. G. -Gardiner. The apply of the
Miutster was not, reported. We Call
say this, however. A number of years
ago. one Of the farmers living near this
good town hired tae then youthful
Gardiner for farm work The first iota.
assignedto the hired boy was driving
a balky horse.--e0ifr farmer friend saw
the problem ahead 'of the future Prime
Miniiter and Federal Minister df Agri-
culture for the Doxninion, and left the
.awo toisettle-th.e matterebetween tbem
The boss chuckled, but the contest be-
tween., ;balky .equine. and- boy went his nose and then proceelled to trim
merrily on. The result? There was a • the 'hair up to 'a tidy topknot. The
good forenoon's work done and borse, results Were startling to say the least,,
and man lived happily ever alter. and not unlike those lurid pictures of
'yes, '"Jinurty" irnews something about Apache Indians. The Jenkins 'boy has
overalls and --balky horses. Some folks' freckles and two -'rather prominent
HOME-MADE' HAIRCIAS
A gentlelean in New •OltY, raised
ent the baek'eoneeselouS of OlitAria,
written' te. tide Murals asking,. "Wbere
has the, porridge bowl baireat one to?
I wits particularlY disappointed on lily
last trip home te aind that there wasn't
elegle lad nt ehurch on Sunday' withoue of the old-fasbioned heireata."
The porridge: bowl haircut is not ose
conareen as it once was, but it's etill
in style ou our concession aor at least
one faeally. ,The Jenkins family, next
farm toeue, is riither large one, and
with thiees as they are at present the
Money for haircuts for seven boys
doeso't eeme to •easy
Last week. there was a, petriotie con-
,
exert at tile school house and I haPriened
Current Views on the War
COVENTRY JVST AbiER
haPliened te be etaying he Blueing.
ham On the Thursday I -light CoventrY.
was 'bombed. All night long fleets of
kitchens and toeked hot meals. The
quarteronasteve are likely to have bead.
aelles trying to account for lots of liaise-
ing things. And else soidiere helped
iursitz JANtrAYRY Ord, IOU
refusing to comply with the request Of lays, broke the' spirit of theueande of
the new Minister for Propaganda for Gerreao treoPa. Mane' Mutiuted end
grea.ter loyalty to the auew order." iiot, others Oilled themaelvea.
. . Among the 6tucivut8 thet.' have ()MY a 'few Norwegians Pow Ustea
been hostile demonstrations 'against to the neWS fromeaslo, and nobedy be.
the eissislinge and, their 'supporters. lieveseitt-ein hotele an restauraut$ it
The authorities have threatened that Isforbidtleii to lasteltato the newe -front
040 Univereity would be elosed jLoodou. bUt at•litnne eireeybotTY liatelia
planes drox" ovez,baatt alai in the mothere their be,blee and. even. taese 'were slot stopped.. Among other
morning 1 beard the whole' appalling "Tut roundestelling ‘thein how they elasees resistance, is more passive .but
of .1autekrteg tee East Bee aft ,raelearloni the.y told the people the "new order" was, met by the trade six mouthe IMPOSO the 44new,, order."'
not !c• sleep wit? their beade together uniena it is said, with immediate ae. The Norwegians _are aware Mat they
beet/ oomParable vvitit •Ctsventry. An but top -to -tail,' to prevent aPread StrUction of tieeir paPers, tiles and are ..,seleeted as a test ilitae-rtild have
In. Al the nevas froneliendoli its be.
lieveca . It is field that the Germane
4tery. itaxaept dor the week -end shou.al ,eleeps Witla experience Of bar': not lees eineere. The iutroduetion of bave given Quisling and his euPPOrtere
tlie In aU boMbing asepoule. he hate wee at of the women revived, they insisted on the !Germans have tried to reseStablish. 'the toiletries 'conquered by their male
in. bis experience was
' be b
the eierinau lunnediatelY the. Men and lets to elos•e were empty .Since then political war the Nazis ilave (Welled in,
membership lists. All the pollee foudd been placed in. 'the front line In the
g ek iuto 'Coventry, lit net to the trade unions, apparently with tile tary pOwer. But in epite of the Preet
London, -nothing in. 'title country lias
infection. •
It.A.F. mail said that the only parallel •
Cnuritrai aud. the 'oulY feature Ju. ug sleep. Otit 250 in One -centre only
was the machine-gunning of the .
fourteen remained, or the mid-day
refugees on the roads. One of the meal, Although there was a full muter
most terrible features was the inadeagain at eight.. Tee niee were going
auacY uf 'the water sliPPIY; it NY" 'book to .see whet. had blippeued to their
lad: „Of Water after the first two hours
in 'Coventry that, turned what would
'have been au 'ordinary big raid into s.
'burning inferno. Once the fires A'ere
under -control aud new services were
assistance of some of their old sure under w
but it emus 'rather doubtful how far Norwegians are full of coUrage aua
they can rely upon the sincerity of tope, More thee ever tliey believe in
these helpers. • the victory of Britain,
Besides a strong and ruthleas --The TimeS,
GestaPri there are now in Norway, ac
pay The wemen event, back to their cording to reliable information, &vitt
homes, and to try .to bave, elleir hos. 330,000 German troop, whica ineans
bands m1 tell yoeua(istu'atietadeyn":sat'nudsauyal.; looked snovmeetitinrgwellitens.one I.Get rmtheausitgoo rearms'
edgevkainr abaereittrYoofiaenssa hsoauwse'sell; imthilaetY4I itertr ewerQrathYpe" the eatualearTehPerey P,earre.‘
saw women grubbing tbrough• the de- ,eituaing barracks, reeds, which are
to 'he over at the J'enkins isome ils the eisprevieete people some to leave iie-
afternoon. -Sitting on the nail keg lit covered. themselves in, ite, extraordinary
the 44hu kitchen was tbe oldest' boy, way. ,,,, • , .. , . .
just turningtoUrteen, while the heed of ,ASeregnia.rivie bus seaviee, the,
the household was sitting On One 'a the German bombers -500 according to
iiitehen elm:ars Pleingehis trade of honae• , some #itintntes„gew into the centre of
bold barber. _ . ,... a -Coven tey- -2 or -eleven- hottrareand --the
--with-one---a-ihir-hi-qh'et-i- iiiiihii's devastation taey tatieed. is,. by its very
wrapped around his shoulders, the lad, concentration, the worst I. bave semi.
sat hunched forward while his dad had It is more appalling to look at than
the clippers and a substantial-lookiiig
,bewl'of some kind even the worst -bombed • parts of Best
Lond'on, bega.uee it is as though to the
"I guess the lad will have to start •rubble of tbe 'London Dockland streets
going to the barber fer bis haircuts," had been added theewreekage Of the
remarked Ed. ,Jenkins as he .clainped tall- buildings of Heiberg and 'Oxford
the bowl down,- 'That's our largest
for it • .
getting too :big a bead steeet and there had been placed in
tbe centre the last war ruins of. the
bowl and be
Cloth'ilall at Ypres.
agre enough the -bowl sat up pretty What those eleven lours meant to
well on his head. I noticed .then a the people,- of Coventry Is jestsaiinted
etack Of. ,, bowls. of the same'. color .-On
tbe table, and as the afterboon Pro- arin the rentarlfof one man eihra with
gressed saw the dad use different eiges hie Wife, tWo-mouths-old .-baby, two
young children and eight others, was
as the boys were called hi their turn for
the hair -cutting process. ' • in a saelter in the very heart of it.
"Every' time we struggled off the 'lloor,”.
Ed. Jenkins • is nett what you • would be said, owe were flung flat on our
eall an artistic' eort of person. l• not faces again by the farce of another
iced that be sheared up to a certain ecanee.
point at the 'bawl's rim. When the And terrilic fires were .ringin,g-sthem
bowl was removed the fringe was trim- round, ffres into and around which the
Died off straight around tbe heal, leav-
ing the impreasion that the lads were
wearing skull -caps. .
Grovving quite emphatic in his argu-
raents over the Hoo. jiramy 'Gardiner's
-farm conterettee-in London, -the bowl
slipped on- the, head' a the tbird lad,
and he sliced a white strip almost to
the top of the head. Ed. looked at it
work' And to collect, if possible, their
' re livirt h
.br,Js to their coal -tellers and using their obviously, of primary military import-
liir water for the meals, I Wipe I have rant the Aimee that the fNagiS are pre- '
don't_ you -knew!" replied the ,advirter.
evreeketi ' furniture for Itandliage And eisee, and :eqnstructing aerodromes and .1.ette;, the, place where sitae ,eheeifeae4e.
.;.,..,,..a> .,,
theesehey, Ny,alkek..411110-w-kk-u--Pmxbers-ortifieations-004:seale-almost-to-war.--iiiitfon cieeee , ..„
-"fieiiii i - -• -
answered the question, i`Witat is Pee , •paring tlie-Noraregiart.numettaina and . '' It you bad that rock back iii your
spirit of 'the people like?" Thirty--. fjords aseaaretreat When thrown Out
the, peOlde, and seventeen centres were / Ge r 0 g oda de ing last sum
, . ., band, woulaaeou heave -it'agaler .
seven, mobile caoteens Moved in to feed ; of Germany: , , ' . ' •
• That's the Plafe
A ,womini about to leave LOndon t'or
New Zealand' was advised to Peovifie
aerself with very warm elothing.
e "Way?" she asked. '
asOlie it's avvfully cold ,eue theta,.
rmanen a r
opened. ;Much more quickly than any 1 user, was busy°111 promising that Nor-
Ope bad expected, utility ,serviees were ; wity,§hotha be liberated. as SO -011 as Eng-
reatored and shops reoPeriede0aventra'' land was beaten. Now it is being real -
struggled back to virile life, and its Will izedreven the Germans in Norway,
to live was in the spirit a tbe people. 'that Englioaa. is kr from beaten ; and
Netv .Statesmen and NatiOn i
GERMANS AND WAS 1 a e interval.
th the preparations fo,r a
tr
uNGs . ' 1 continned German hold" on the aoUll .,,y
,,, • NORWAY • — ! believes that the iiivaders 'will ever
Tim . have reached sleet a scale that nolsoay
t
When, at the end .of .'SePtember, tabeefforts to establish aleY sort of friendly
leave a titeir•Ownfme will.' Out their
0. .
German Relehekommissar par .Norway,, reletions with the ;Norwegian people
Terboven, in a preelamation from the have -s* far failed, and they have to
Oslo broadcasting station, disposed of face the tact that they -are desIsised i
the King, the 1'4:4.0 family, the -G-overn, and hated intruders in a 'hostile land. I
meat, the, political patties (except the t • The preparations for• an invasion of ,
Quialings), nobody could deny that he lingland imee been. stopped. Thousands 1
made a.thorough job of it. 111 So many of small :fishing amecits were equipped ;
wita extra bunks to be used -as trans -1
• ports; they were taken eutto sea.again '
and again,and the troops, in flail -war,
equiinnent,* often with horses, were
ordered. Into the sea' to thavim ashore.
There Is no doubt That the rutblessoese
with ivhieh this drilling was carried,
tbreugh, and the *rafting, and the deo'
bombers poured each load a bombs, words lie wiped 'oat the independence
Judging by the way in which aome of of ,No'rway and the politicalliberties
the big buildings in the ,Oity Centre of its People. But he also. cleared the
had been trampled into mash, tbey must 'ale in Norway and created a situation
have had, dozens of heavy bombeaon in' which all efforts to reach some sort.
-eatir.---TheeCatliedral waeleft like the Of aetiMPrOnliSp--Imreamtide 'ireposeible.
fretworkmalls'of tf film set. allostebut The -will to resist has, .according to all
not all, of the bombs/ell in that fire -lit inforinatton received ftom Norway,be
target a thesfeentresethey _destroyed come gradually' stiffer since 'Telboven
for several minutes, Inuttered.'to lib?: miteh_ilsat....wae beautiful_ and_hislorie ePoke. Every effort of the Quisling
'self and puebedahis glasses back ini on Government to induce the Norwegian .
people to believe that the- "new older" -
in Norway means the real ltberation of
the people and the eeeetion, of a new .
and happier 'Norway, freed from party
Strife and class distinction's, seems to
have t.illen en very deaf, ears.
say that he keows a little about human[.
..gase e eej'_,
teeth, and I m _ must say I bad rather a
r ;With the dawn, the dazed people The Norwegians arenot blind to tbe
nature -__Some o far arctsay hard obto keep a straight_face_When
ame-etit ofetheirestelters, their Cellars feet that 'behind tae screen of ' rosy
that he can do a fairish job at taking '
he slipped off the isalakeg and grinned and • their hiding places under the promises` lie' a e0onger Censership, in
-
stairs, and there began an exodus which creasing difficulties in obtething the
necessitiesof life,. neW threats; 'new
arraetse and the tightening grip. of the
Gestapo. . . .., ScOtes. of Norwegian
jourealists 'have -been .imprisoned foe
a .
'as well as the &qw•deti back streets
which were thehomes,-of the workers..
Alter tliat night of agony, 'the, death-
kell and the casually list seemed likely
to be terrible. The one great consola-
tion is that, measured by the damage, it
Was almOst miraculouely small.
, •
Piipplei Kill
Many a Romance
The lives 62 many, young people
arec)atThnia:It.preinloun*bpileeesrisaoblinieothtbeyi;oft'inha!)-ne:17414
*4phyai-
cal pain, but it is the mental suffer-
ing -caused by the embarrassing dis-
figurement of the face waif* very
often makes tea sufferer ashanied to
%a out in company.
The quickest way to 'get rid of
pimples is to improve the general
' health by a thorough cleansing of
theBubriodoodekofBiltsoolrBurlattiees.
nr
luidspurities tbe _blood --Get rid. of
rSer' pimples by *ring- B.B.B.
I lrbd t 'Vibe= os„ Ltd, 11/4troatth Odt.
AY'
care ef himself on the platform, but
as 'Mr. Kipling used to say, "That is
another story."
* *
Premier Hepburn au setting himself
up -as- a monetary expert is treading
dn dangerous -ground: There is a flood
of writing, anti talking on -tbe_ mon
question, and. many a man who has
delved into. the subject has. found
when he found that his cap was too 'big
for his heal, which aeemeti to shrink
after the elipping process.
A II -time -made haircut was_aabadge
of courage in my day. It seems like.
yesterday to consider the tixnes we went
into the village on a Saturday after-
noon. and; ,with that trait of, all. boys
Wanting to explore the store windows
-alone, my cousin and 1 wandered Off
bY ourselves. In front a the -Murphy
Emporium two of the Village boys
himself more confused than before he started yelling, "The rats ,ben at your
began his delving. It is easy to sge, ihair? " . This taunting continued 'cloWn
however, the danger of -the policy 0-2 t past Miss Abigail Parnoon%
mnilflnery
currency -.expansion which Mr. Hep-
burn advocates. Money, like anything_
else, becomes cheap if there is an ovetrly
large supply Of it. -Cheap mon 4 means
higher prices for, ,the commodities
which it purehases, so that inflation
would bring in an era a higher pries .mind the homekmade haircuts in those
which would not help anybody exceat days. There came a day, hovvever,
at the expeiese of people with xed when a certain pert little miss on/the
Mn street looked at me and smiled
incomes. Higher prices would injure . . . and for the first time I was thor-
enO the old creamery and then on the,
broad expanse of a vacant lot we eet-
tledethe euestion.
We won the battle. I believe to this
day that the advantage of not haying
hair to grab, over the two village boye
with 'ordinary, fairly long, hair,, was
-what won the day for us. We didn't
EDITORIAL NOTES.
The Austrafian forees in North
Africa have lost severiteen men .killed
aetione or _died 02ounhe
itunaliereef enemy eeptive.s in 'propor-
tion to fatalities Must be an all-time
, record. . .
*
'The neet total eclipee of.'the stue. we
are told, will ocoar September 21, 1041,
and will be beet .ceen in 'China. "Sun"
in thie eaee probably meaning the
Japan�eUag, whlehis already on its
T7 out. in China.
*
•4 "
JapSap Azio to Gein. Goal if Given
VinseeN'etvepaper..,headline. "0041"
must be a raieprint for "gaol," where
the Axis beetle Will bessiiveix a good
lono time if. they tion't defeat austice
by eouniiitt fug, lJarihLlti.
4, *:
Houaewives, restaurante aua °there
ere being ure'ed toalvoid waste Of butter
I order to conserve the oupply Until
inert -steed production begins in the
King. We know ouetinan who says
he will not at any butter: for the
stnration of the war.
• • •
me a quarterame day and told inc to
get my hair cut dt Jim iSliclestbarber
shop . . . remipdine"me as I ieffa-alle
him to cut it up fairly high so the
haircut will last longer."
AYRSHIRE BREEDERS '
•MEET IN HOWICK
, , <
the rate at whieji this expansion of Demonstration and Speeches at Barn
currency should take .place we fancy Meeting, on Shtrong, Farm near
Gerrie,'
• A largely attended barn meeting
sponsored by- the Danner Counties Ayr-
shire 'Club was held on the farm of
John W. and Wesley Strong, near
Gorrie in Howlett township, on -Thors-
day afternoon, January lOth.' . -
After the chairman, J. C. Shearer,
agrieultural . representative, tiutlined
the purpose of the meeting, he called
'on John W. Strong, who assured the
visitors of a very vvarm' %velem° in
Visiting •the 'farm and herd. L. E.
Cardiff, M.P.,' Brussels, a new man Jai
most people would prefer the advice,
Of "the responsible financial', anthorities
at Ottawa to Mr. laepburn's irrespous-
ible views.
CARELESSNESS CAUSES
,MIY011 DISAPPOINTMENT
_ .,•
Near13s 4,000 lettere and over 1,000
parcels for men overeeas that could not
be forwarded 'became of insiiffielent or
incorre& address were received at Post
Corps, Headquarters, .Ottawa, imi a the Ayrshire breed, spoke brieilly and
eingle month recently. Referred to the introduced the guest epeaker, R. II„
Noteely yet bee euggesteal that thO
• rood 'netting i.)etwpc: n Hitler and
S uaaolini waa arraned n hat tht
is *a ilds Aldo any longer, ihnt to go
Ng's! cbSof mfght be 11 Duoe not tts
records office of the A.riny• for Pariieu-
lam, onlyixty-three of :thise letters
and 4.13 oeeeasesseeathe _ arecile youittfie. Adovi.
iliiirIan immediate forwarding, while
'Graham', Ontario Livestock Branch,
Toronto, 'whe'itoolt as his subject aasire-
tosk. Isaireataelien andMaraceital eq." lie
14troFaed iseae preventiou
information was obtained in regard to . and the [place a the. Ayrshire betted
a ' large proportion of the remailider in Ontario. -,Other,speakers were J. S.,
which would enable the Postal Corps AnaPP, Galt, :sales agent for the Club,
to try them again at re-direpted ad- and Mr. W. F. Biernes, Listowel, . one
dr It was neeesaaiy, hoevever, to •of the direetore. •
fioki .2,a00' pieces . of which lie record After the speaking program,: twe
of address could he •founa. -Theseenav
was like 'the 'flood of refegees in Bel-
gium and France. They earried the
few ,belongings they had or pilesi -them
oissperarabulators or hand -carts or the
wrecks of cars, and trekked out along
the radial roads -.which run- out of
Coventry. "We were Making for the
_._woods;'j_was :told over :ona_over again." ,
"All .we knew was that we would net
spend another night aMong buildings."
Laree numbers slept in the open, al-
though marshals and search -parties
went out to find them and to try teepere
suede them to go to food and rest,
bentres whiali bad been thrown tpen,
to then:f over a wide _aree of Oise -Mid-
lands,. - -
- It would be manifestly unfair to
everyone concerned . to form a -hasty
Judgment of what was done or left
undone. For ont thing, the destraction
Of the City °entre, and the ordeal
wiliehofficials themselves went through,
left the relief arrangements of !Coventry
itself almost paralyzed. ,Out Of four-
teen food and rest centres which had
been established, Only four were 'fit -to
function that first day. It was almoSt
,Impossible ,in those 'first hours to get
,buses and coaches, into.the heart of the
•ctty to collee.t. tbemeiesa "fa'tilii for
the stricken city had to mete:arm out-
side, and it did. The Midlend cities re-
sponded magnificently. Even while the
bulbs wore falling doeing the night,
the -Midland regional adthorities wete
acting with commendable thoreugliness
and -eaeleditioa; They avere,sueinsmair
'ing assistance from all over the Mid -j
Iamls and beyond, , And it came. 00
I
the ,Friday morning, Miss Florelice .
Horsburgh, M.P.,. Varliamentary Secre, '
tary of the Ministry of Health, and
leading officials of the Ministry, all' of
whom had had wide, -experience 'of the .
breakdown in tondon , and had taken
the lessons well t� heart, went to Cov-
entry. 'Miss ,Horsbergh, sparieg the
hard-pressed local officials; Proceeded
to create her own organization, among
the .ruins. She sent an -18.0.18. to the
Ministry's inspectots all over central
England, and, leaving everything else,
they tushed bi. motor cake to Cawentry.
:finder great difficulties, they estab-
lished, marshalling points outaide the
devastated area of the iCenere and, with
the eplendid aesistanee of the Coventry
-
transport cmantiaer and his stall tate,
somehow eontrived to get busee and
coaches- there. More transport poured
in from other elates
While they were grappling with the
difficult problem; of the homeless, they
we also clearing the bespitals. ', That
was a /tine job. Iloapitale had been
eltisses of higleciade Ayrshires °from bit, but everyone had been eased mad
later find their way to their deetination the !Strong herd *ere used for judging
if teldreeseOs make . application or In instatiction. Official judgee weresWila
formation ean etherwase be obtained. feed ,Selmeller, Baden, jacobeSchmidt,
Mail foroversees, it is pointed out, 'Waterloo, and Oeear Seheirholtz ef
ehould inelude in the address the naesiall.
soldier'e regimental number, his rank •
and name, 'bis service or sunit, and
should be sent care of Base Post Office,
Canada.
Ine MANNINO POOL
- :
MISSION eigctiv .
The Mission Circle , of North street
Milted ehurelt held their annual meet-
ing at the honie of r‘trs. W. P. Lane
One evenitig last week e Iteperte were
J. V. MeAree in his„eoltinin in 'The raven by the conveners of tile various
Toronto Globe and Mail throws light departnueite. A vote of thanks was
pie. Ile Oaiito "In the eolirse of this leatierahip .during the last year, Of. $L Panipbell for. her
n a term that has euzzied Many pee. tendered
weelt we enlarged our tore of knew- fivers for the eoinit4; year were elected
!Mae to inehule elianning Pool. We as follows : Past preeidena Katharine
Manning avenue or the alannhig ViCe-pregident, Mary •IIoward ; seere-
Verna Itarbour;
had supporred that it was sOmething Iike lluira:v; Prei'ident;
3Atraclandiii%,;a
totlille41 maao.a
ftel' aparnitiaeitilialrial=1_, i tary, Freda Barbour, trasurer, Itelen
graphieal 'theation. The truth 2cerns Itaward ; pianist, Mary ;Howard ; group
leadere, Paiiline Johnston and Elva
to bse that the mantling pool which WartilY, l'eggY CooPer and Manion
(leo not require anv eapital letters that Ciattliniati g flutwrintendents, Mrs- W. P.
we ean ece, le the poo1 or reservoir or Lana 'alai' Mrs. Norman. The hostess
depot from which aireraft teen are oersaal laneli during a eoeial hour.
drawn to man our planefl. Wherever
there is a training school tor airmen, linahaild; Tho wife and 1 had
there is your manning pool!' ; terrible light lirt flight.
qeorge: Iteally? Who got the be,st
A ear runs fheAt when All the nutA of It?
•
Art tight -wept tht ont behinct the Itu9,tand: The pecok, tiresAmaker
Atetringwbi. arni milliner.
the Ministry immediately began to
MON* evereone out, ineluiling •tbe
chronic eick and the Ordinery patients
as well as the caeisalties. By midialey
on Sattirday all the casualties had been
got away.. , , „
In three onnties, toed and rest
centres were thrown open for time borne- I
less. Over 20,000 'blankets were .(91.t..1,
into, the area. The Ministry of Feed I
organized rin emergeney ffOod suPPlY for I
a city Which was almost destitute of
1
food. Loaves he thelondred thousand :
Waved ' in from other cities and dis-
tricts, Water earte'and 'flexible •pipingo
wore rualied through to give the Pool&
water. while Ministry et Information
lond-enealtere toiled the eitY giving, in
addition to directionefor.the homeless,
instructions to boil all water and milk
in ease of tvnlioid, Later the m.o.Jt
oohed athitii foreinoeulation against
r-typhold, and the response watt good.
At the reoelgion entlieefood and rest
centremade provision for the large
numbers thee -hiid to reeeitei. 1 wes
particularly impreesed 4w the epontan-
emis responae of the soldiers; in the
country distriets Cloak_ by. It WAS not a
ease •of 'eailing in the inilWirS1" tho
soldiere did What they emit ',wee 11CONS.
Siarytwithout waiting for orders from
hightio, up. They turista over their
<,,trvery truttit,:we stly-clorveris-ettontril;utiort
to, trietory.!' TnK I*IME MINISTER CANAD/14
rotes, wires, eahle, switehboards-these are the mate.
sial parts or tile telephone systemt,
Rat then there ate the People who make these things
aerv rn.r-over ten thousand of them. They build,
maintain and improve the telephone plant-hring its
service to you. Ali put warmth andlifeinto your
terephone. Tethension's war effort their work is vital.
Long aso we round that you can't rule courtesy and
friendly interest into being. Telephone courtesy
coutei limn inside. It is, in essenee, the will to serve.
Without the men 'and women workers who have
',caught this idea, .telephone service as you know. it
would not be postible.
rr ge4Ade4
It
eerYeawliho tyonik
f oauer '144:tie
policy, "the beat tele/
phone service it the
lowest cost consiatent
with financial safety." 61414154 g/144$
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