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OI*1R1NN41 Th fiQPICRIell SIGNA.fi AND 'X'1111 001ThitIt111 STAR
Vublished by • SigneWitar Press. Limited
!test Street, Gederieh. Outeele
'RIIII,M$DAY,/ JANUARY. 30th, .1941
against Ilitleriem calls tor iluarteiai
eaeriftee on the pafp, of eVery CO.nadifirt,
and eveey Man, wormier, boy or girl
Who levente1i wer savings eertilleatee
or stamps' ie beliiingr to Provide Our
Ogisting-forees withthe weahons and
erinipment.whiele tney must 'have,
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By bequest orthe late Ilia. A. W,
Donly, the TOVVO Of 'Sirocco and the
Voinaty .ef (Norfolk have come „ late'
Posseseloo of one "of the ••ifluest
residences- in Sint*, to be lied a a
nterfolik Celinty misegan. The eum of
$10,000 aleo la provided as an endow
Meat. 4,14,Aoder1c1i, the tracieus-
a .1aeal inueeuna bas been, hensed In;
inadequate qinaters in Siracoe's public
wilienowe•liave
an •opportunitei to develop into one of
the ' town's chief centres ofinterestr
Any ,Godetich ,eitizeo 'who, desires. to
:leave a.splendid otoeument when he
departs this life might follow Mrs.
Donly's etanaple.: -
NATIONAL UNITY
't;illoting Andre Maiirols, who anike
tey, TorentOk alldience reeeettly, to the
"nett that Tne, elatlen can todintaie
alhertY Wide% it ean Maintain, security;
and that no ilatipo -can Maintain
aeeurity uoleSe it eatt :maintain unity,
TOr011tO ISafilr,{14Y Night
Be eoniti, hardly have delivered
, that' momeietortS, saying in a Ploce
where more urgentl,yOne-eried
be said.. Canada is a nation whiela
ia aterioes to meintain liberty,
which is *Me tee well elluiPPed for
Maintabeing security, and which as
a nation ifs very far frau), posnessing
the abidedesirof nar/V0
far, in, ee the streaSes aid
.• Strains' ealleml by the war, mad
thanks' I:ere largely. to tire modeler-
intelligerar ite° national -
• Government, euch.unity :as Canada!
nas-omeaged achieVie has .not
yet been gteatlii impaired as a.
• eesult of the ..tryieg Conditions On
, the time. But . there are . those
amOngSt Us . WhO caneoti refrain
$rona seizing every opPortuoity to
etir. up a .iniity for Melt .own
Inolitleal vies—inciting the eitimus
one!„province 'to a low, opinion
of the- citizens of anotb,er ProVillee,
exerciSing ,their authority to sup-
• press eipinions whieh' are distaste-
%fel to themselves, s„tircing up
suspicion, against boneet 'fellow- ,
Canedians here and hatred against
worthy fellow-Oirna.diansi, there.
National unity cannot lie created
by the suppression of differing
opinions. National unity is the.
produet of toleranee. There are
•• Canaelians who have. been so led .
awey tbe a.ppa.rent successes of
'a,- •regime. of'.suPpression. in
tiormitny and Italy that they have -
eoiee. to the belief that the national
uirity createe by that method is a
genuine, and durehle one. The
trutb. is that thit-kind Of unity Ise),
• brittle and per hablel 'veneer cloak-
' lug • a- Mass "cif -irreconcilable
hatreds The /ratioeal unity of
•Faseist Terry has already been re-
vealed'for the "hollow shell that it'
ire. The national unity -ref -Germ,any
will go the- same way *heir the
same pressures are applied to it.
In the uteautinne. the nationefunity
of France,. as (lit(e. Maurais poin.ted
out, is +being refashiened in the.
cruelble Of elefedt, as,Frenenmen.,
of all' parties Are lehriiing that
+ tolerance of One- enibither's, views the
lack of whien 'was the cietee of
their rein. • • ,
•
The soldier, in the Ifiree'of- the enemy
trots the comrade at his though
.„
between ,the two tnere May be deep
end -Wide differences "in race, in re-
' ligien1, pinions and prejudi*ees. Is It
Itat equallY•true that those on the hoMe
/rout, 'in. order tee giee'- the fullest
measure of „support to: the national
effort, must seek. to find and gultivate
those things ,that make for unity?
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,EDITORIAL, NOTS -
Weil, we're half throegh this winter,
anyway.
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Mussolioi might, have gone down in
history as a big man if he had died
twelve" snonths ago.
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Lindbergh's ideas on the war are
being applauded iii dermany--1
is all we want to know about them'
eSendayeneilleber-Oandie
that leernedi,and,.wise prognosticator
MreGroundhog, come.s out of his lair to
sample the air and determine ,iyha.t the
weather, will be for the -next six weeks:.
According . to. a ' rtehted. metlical
aOthoeity, longevity is a ,matter oe
,heredity and eaes ,not hinge on the
kind a life' -a. man lives. It 'would'
perhaps be just asi welt not to Iet that
notion get around, too 'much.
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The people of Walkerton allowed the
to-yeat term to 0/tie let& effeet or
„. their To•wn, 'Council, and at the first
meeting of the new terra the members
voted ' themselvea .eadh for each
ezegular meeting. The electors cannot
cle anything about it until the end of
ioWit AFFAIRS
Bditor Thee Signa.1-Star.
that the year 1941 has
arrived and the Cibuneil members have
been allotted their: various eommiesione,
the people* are wondering what
will be done for -our manna -benefit.
We are quite, iutere.stecl hi tire inaegur-
al speech .by our Meyer, which I Oave
read with apProVel.
Considering the way the Town ,of
'Otelerich has been bled linaaciaily tor a
nutirber of years because of the Lake
Shore Railway, andlosses in taxe-s and
some usereere and expensive, lawsuits,
etc., I believe, even with good patriotic,
thinking menewho-wilieeall for tenders
QI1 COlitragt wOrk, teener than. show
fevoritism oh•graft in any way, it will
take twenty years ,to back_ to,
where the town should be toOay. •
In studying the expenditure for 1940
,I find payroll after payroll, amoenting.
in all to neatly $9,000, Without being
itetaizeli,theughni iiirdnnither Itenes as
'love as fifty 'cents; also in relief items' •
not a siegle, name of anyone receiving found that axle grease and turpentine
relief. New the taxPayerS have ea rubbed on the throat wottid be juSt the
perfect eight to -know wheee every cent 'thing to cure the hired man of all his
is spent. , cold germs.
,New that:we expect and hope for 'a Mention a cold and the average maii
good share on a heavier than Usual or woman will either prescribe for it
tourist traffic, I wonder what they will or start telling you about the tiine:'..a
say about sonic, of our Streets and certain .1-Jincle of. theirs took a mild
eihder oegritty clay sidewalks. I think cold and died fifteen, .days • 'later after
they , should receiee 'prompt attention slowly strangling to death. The men -
in .the epring ODA of a cold seems 1O make people
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na.ve given, the twenty-year deben- think on kraveY,ards or honie,made pre
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tare systenr spite 'serious coesideration. scriptions, -•
and 'concluded it Is unfair; and I feel . I :remember quite Well coining home
from School one night -with A bad cold
and a kindly (old gentleman -Wh-Olived*
in a little liousetliis side of our Coo -
cession schoolneuse talking to me. • He
gave me a little. saek 0) wear "around
or half e lot,- good buildings, etc. "B" my neck and made me promise not
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neves-eliekt, The tutire *Mit itrola
editer te ot Jug Owe
- * naell. The eUrPriShin flet he that their
ITALY GOES TO WAit I haustion:
paper, Owing °kit, tie a weelz, Retn.
"When D4°1)/14ati°11 w" 4:IdePed in Wn It was 'kluging elOser MI! ally reitehten the i1&lik1S
,Septembor, 1939,, a %YAW of fear -Swept closer. With tbe Brenner' Pane meeting I habitants In, /lie japaneeh-o011itr011ed
COLT) CUBES • over the PeoPle. The faces of the men of Hitieread ausSolini Marche -the" toWliS in that sii;triet. Several. tieftee
This 11. the eeo.00rt for eoids. - "Even Who appealed in response to' tire pia.- Mast of. war ProPagantla began, dir- tbe Japanese garrison- e 0 lin
ehese diva. oeing the strarr. Gtaek 'to Tbev .peesented a'MoSt 11n -like tooas, radio, inflammatory articles, I Once a searehing party aetilallY entercd
w,ipe away the iniluenza-linspired Ware. appeaeanee in their ragged clothink, atroeity stories—all, the old, - ivbips for tee eillege. Tne village elder offerCd
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In the harnyard, Biddy, our little red often withoutehoeser wearing oneS not lashing an, unwillingrpeople tato war, to help in tlie searele What he aetn's
bee, ha e watery ereS to match her ewe- mates, StIOPhrieg their own underwea.r, wore brought to War. On June 10 , allY did WaS to tili elf the trio to toll-
piexion, and I've /loaned the horse- if any. and often forced 16 remain in came the .arinouneenaeut on. the eadioleeal their printing apparatUS. As soon
table resounding with fere ,exploeling
erteezers' of the inhabitants of that por-
tion of the barn. ' ,. , •
+Laet week the hired man had a cold.
For +breakfast he demanded sliced on-
ions, and while the gest of 'us cheerfully
_tried to hold the tears baelc, he
eau/ached on. the. vegetabledynamite
oheerfultil . At last, whenetbe wet of
US found exoteses to. nroVe as far away
from the table' as possible, he gavel'
Lor breath ane gulped water in a mail -
mer to be ,,,corapared. to the Intsny one -
cylinder pump, of a 'thresher's tar*. i lizes One 'Million Mee,'" arid tile:enemy
Somehow the .ortioes didn't seem to would quake'accordingly. eIt was ahlY
help the cold.' 011ie thing they 414,49, dreeessar,y to say, not to do. 4 Germany
and that we's to keep tne rest -Of. us far ripped her way through Poland in three
enough away from ialm that we didn't bloody weeks of terror, People .were
pieh ri2 any of tbeeeseld.germe. r At noon glad thej-ivere going, to be .on the side
he iiimeinhered:anotlier euro` thee had the' victor, but worealmostas rtfinar
been offered at some previous date, and of him. as if: the dread +Panzer divisions
he wore a pair of woollen stoclanga were poised on their own borders.
egise-crossed 'on ilia chest.,,,Whether it But Il puce r . . ah, he Wakf clever!
was fel' the Warmth of othe woollen He would 'outsmart the dull .elerourns
material or eome strange superetitiaus and wrest from them eintories,,colonies.
reason Pll never tell you, but his cold fled coneessions for the Italian. People
grew steadily worse. without one drop of itallan blood being
After supper he. Soaked his feet in a spilled.. )(tidy was to be the Weight in
solution of mustard and Salt and boiling the scales, everlastingly threatening to
t Then he drank juice from shake. the " balance, yet never quite
our +belligerent BerknIlite is eniffling 1 cards peSted ell oyet Italy were sullen. feted MaltilY , 'against England. care `down 'Mil s . troubleseene IleWe-sheet.
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civilian dress ,for lack of uniforms: No tha.t 11, Duee would speak that after- as tb,e japanew party lied e ' . 10
faeilities were provided for &imitation noon from the well worn balcony' In enimeograPir loaeldne waS put ,to work
:or
cleanliness; " One could •SW the again. "
soIdiere' dirty elethiug hingieg 'Out the * Iti the Western 11111S onierleoking the
ovindoWs et the ,eelioolhouSes android eity of Peiping, whereChinese Uerilids
publi4 buildings that had been • cora-
the 'Venice Palace, and that all Fascist
untlesemust, he peesen.t uniform in
the,. large square below. „ They dila-
mandeered as +barracks. „
But their lack of ordinary (military
equipment did not matter because, after
all, they were not expeetech -to right, or,
if eventnally "forced to do, see not for*
least three years. Headlines in other
countries. would; scream, '`Italy
notwa er.•
roast lemons and went to bed. • Next doine so. Iter indecision would keep
morning he was prowling round about irgleriti frora' taking any decisive steps
4 o'cleek looking for ashirin tablet's. In In the :Mediterranean,. keep her 1133.-.
spite of out insistence wonlde't.stey *Pientrintil.Victory was vvithin Hitler's
in bed. He's been hacking and cough, .grasp, and then Italiravoeld step in at
ing all 'morning and !growling about the victor's. side with tiourishing,Satin
conditions 111 'general. Evidently his gestures end a• greedy hand for. un
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cold is not imprevinge nor, for that earned erehis, In the meantime, she
matter; his, disposition, • • - could 'engage very profitably in ship
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I mention this only as an example ping, beteg one of the few n.eutralsleft
of ceid cures. It's stranee, but just let free to do so, ad needed supplies
a hint drop on a rural strange
line could ;flow from the outside world , to
about ane of the family having a cold tbe +ally .theriortia, defeating in part
and eben'sit back and wait; Sureeen- the, hated 'British ohleeletede. .
ough in about ten'hninutes you'll have, 'Yet under this confidence, a secret
ever on the line' calling with her doubt' rumbled. .This trade agreement
own prscription for a' mild cure. r- mid Viet' of friendship^ between Ger-
•'About the strangest one I ever heard many and +Russia late ,Augiist 9f '39
was that of Mes. 'Jiggles, who., called —that waS, bard to explain. fletween
this morning to suggest that the hired 40,000 and 100;000 Italian_ soldiers had
Area -pickle two duck livers in vinegar died in :Spein, fighting side by +side vvith
And sett and then eat the livete before the .Gerinles against this same menace
going.. to pea. Another person called of +Communism: which -the Nazis had Oe -
up to say that a cup of •pure Vinegar nOunCed in such ;thunderous terms.
and mustard would_ he...a....cer.tain_cure. 1,:q..:PlY..,:the'fvio Were eppareotly embrae:
Lor a cold.. Still another said thattney ing. P-erhaps it was a political .trick
on the part of tbe Gernians to frighten
England. Perhaps . . (perhaps... . .
In the coffee shops, where chiceriehad
taken theeplace of coffee, there was
much epeeelation. It was all hard ..te
understand, But 9f •one therg one
could be certain. There would be ,,no
;waegefor,Italy, no real- fighting. . 11
Duge had promised it, nNoebelliger-,
enZa." That wee the, vvord, To it the
Qe9p1e chin With pathetic persistency.
. No, there' will not be Lit war. Il
Three wilnake care of everything: He
is their 4fatherv—their friend. His
PO1iti9A1 methods are violent,. yes, but
violence is soniething ape Understands.
Assa.seination, treachery, thesuppre-s-,
aloe of 'free speech. the coup—the
blood of •Itorgla and condottiere has
not run' too thin as yet for the value
of such things to go unappreciated,
three lots -per yeed walk; therefore Are they not the very essence of prac-
while "tA."_ pays frontage for two or
"A" refuses to Sign a'Petition tfor a Managed to wear it for a (lay, but tical politics?
walk and, I think, rightly, oir public aiother pinned -me down to -changing During the winter, 'in spite on all
property, for the general use of the My; underwear One morning Andnin the that was said, one could senllnPoS
se the
PUblic which skOuld be built and main- course of the wrestling bout that for- coming of war .• Coffee became
tained by the public. But we lave opened it ,•te end a diced calf , ear. many, .one ' heard. Fruits and vege-
lowed ,she discovered the -bag, She sible to obtain. It was going to Ger-
for twenty years or whicla le still being' femellkhered "
Whet She told ,me then I've always tables, indeed all supplies, became very
those whose property has been taxed
taxed: I say it 'woold be right and that the only way to core a Rold was sent to Germany ' that by Februarr
including the • advice scarce ; in fact, so much was eeing
faie for tile public to 'pay for and to • go to bed for a day or so.. . • and 1940 there was a real scarcity and d
not tax those vrhose prepertv has been. not to listen to 'what the neighbors substantial increase in prices, in some
have to offer by way of cures. " cases as Much as -fifty Per cent To
maintein all streets And walks but do
,
,teXed until repair or renewa1. combat this, k law was passed in March
m intain, TEAT OTTAWA 'CONFERENOE
orderiog h all salaries .inereased from
-A geml 'bituminous walk, a fifteen to twenty-five Per cent. I know
can lip eonstruCted for half the price ' .of no Instance where this was put into
iif itis censthtutional it should not he,
butshOuld :be condemned, This, is whiz
-A" has two or three lets of very little
value whieh 14 the present condition
can scarcely be sold. "B" -has. one lot
1942.
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o+Toitlea Galnihnere IS not
unduly optimistic!: He
ThTii
the war. will not last„longer than five
six years. • The term mentiened by
the IIon. "Jimmy", May be much
nearer the 'ma.rk tbart the "year or
twO"' at whiCla some overly hopeful
people put it.
pays frontage for one lot or half -lot, to ,anvbedy about it, and to +bury it
after I had worn it for three days. I
fully, dropped everything nd assealbled have their +base, is 1)011840
t°r tw° 1Vs4ess 11.°111s "betere th° lithographed neWesheet entire
North China today, - Its editorial;reoms 'Germain on the Continent. Indeed
Presence revealeti itself. A roar of
he onlY
tit , .PANtiAltr *kb, 1$41
DR. MORSE'S
INDIAN ROOT PILLS
for WY LIVERS
emut your liver to rtialtby
s(tiord .1-1•10 it km* the
Hs joica flowing Vlith
'Vt. MOM'S" tho lee
Proved vogoisbio loather
Ask for this eilloble
remedy by name at
your druoufors.
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PILLS
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***ammireoresserree :eneelesee , "we
would uhreot NOrweglans, Danes,
landers, Belgians, and FrenehlrOm the
aPelause, the . screams ot• "Duee 1" aie hosed ,a pagoda even, Oso, .tbkre S no ason to believe Otherwise
sea eeaste as ftothfereeNarte:isf,owrevilier;ahrive
Pre
jutting jaw, ,e0nunanding '•The erVes ""fi Wat611 taWeib time
gti°4411.* PeaM alms °
"Duce'," Then the upthrust arm„ the
recorded imndredS Of sPeeches and
books and written in horror upon the
minds Of persona in many Ovaries,
rOad like a eightMare. •
"The world: order we seek," said
'coresident Itoosevelt in his 'address to
trieate eourier system, more than 300 .the serentrseventlat Congresse, is the
eciples of ; every issue are Smuggled co-oPeretion of free countries •working .-
liton0-rIrtpaneseeseirthatOneto-reaellee- togethereln-a. eivluze4 eogig_tv!
fiffri;''' Wide circle of people Inside reip- 'Under the ,Nazi belief 111 the inherent -
ing. It has always ebeen puzzlin# to , superiority of the "new order" they
the Japanese, The paper IS 'coining, have established, only a "Deutschland
out twice week, tteber Alles" ceuld IVO regarded as an
.One Striking similar feature ',of air! aceeptable aim of the Third Reich.
these newspaper offices in North China I ---The !New York Times,
Is the preeence or firearms. In every
office there are -always a nuniber
evils. of the democracies barl become e
stench in the -nostrils of the young and
vigorous dictaterShiPs. On. and on;
went the strident voice; At the end,
an Italian friend turned ,to no with
e 8mne, even," he queried, dusting
off his' uniform, "What' shall We take
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1,Joder . the outward exeiteitent au&
effort at Jubilation, half defiant and
half embarrassed, was a deep sadness,
a sense of impending:disaster. Italy
had made the final break .with her old
friend, England,* who all winter long
ilia been raining down 'propaganda
of war, was showering down ,bembs, '.--, mhen a
leaflets, and who now, less than two of
days ',after Italy's formal declaration. rifles and mina. grenades lying about.
reporter goea tint to get his
Jamming the big transports, which :
de Savala, well known, to travelling news, be not, only carries pencil and
paper but also, hand grenades.. This
included the once gay Hex. andi Conte
Americapn, but now painted a dun litst a. well aciviSed precaution, because
gray, were thousands of soldiers bound these provinces, of lyorth China,
for f.4,13ya., far which Naples le .the where the 'Chinese ,,:and Japanese lines
port They were better equipped than are ao confusingly interMixed, one
never knows when or whereihe may rim
into the -enemy. .-
lion: P. M. Deivera, Ontario's Minister
of Agrieulture, adviws,' farra- boys to
stay on -the tailn—in:notabie,contrast
to 'the doleful, talk of another agrieue-
bar* gleatiet'‘ 'few weeks age. Mr.,
Dewan admii7Vroift tbe farnailig best-
ness hae its erne‘k pot ----but what
ibunirtese hasn't?
Farquhar °Heck, lioted aa the sole
-1C.1,1'.0., member of the Provincial Legis-'
'attire, has been taleen into the ItePlearn
(labiltet RS Minister of 1.411)11c. "Virorlm,
anceeeding 'Major Colin. (iampbell, who
is overeeas` with the Itoyal Canadian
Cngincers. tOliver leiven eone
siatent etipport V) :the Hepburn (ioverne
wont anti in Joining the Cabinet giveet
ap only a nominal independence.
War cannot be, tarried on withottt
money. and modern 'warfare involve*
ItilipOotittire on an laroense eCitie, The
soiotettankte of * sneeessful struggle
of cement, and most of us would ne Editor Tbe Signal -Star. •
haiiinV, to have evehrbitupeinatia which Sir,—After studyitig your editeriah
lly i' 1
tern berilifinffrOmore eaillY eoneeirietenj on the collapse of the Dommioff-Trib- larger cities,. has a' fairtastic, quality
and cheaper of maintenance. If- eer- vineial conference. And -also your .(it- about it. Only in the Orient fs there
tein pereens on eertain blocks 4einand + tawa correspondent's report on the anything comparable. Life for •-tbe
rementokit them pay the difference In meeting I would like to have if pos- poor, in the Italian city IS the life of
price: . ' . ' . slide a 'discussion of the report on at 1 .
, the'netreet. Here they are born, liver
A suggestion for the better advertis- least, some other phases of: it than illSt 1 and die, eat and sleep, and perform ell
Ing of the Town of Goderieh is to get the, settlement of the :pest financial 1 the functions of living without ,shame
something. useful done to inifirove and I dents of the different Provinces: Surely i or retieence, A hundred and fifty lire
beautify the, town, rather then con; I a work, of" two years at a coat of $500e, a month is , a very common income.
struet dangerous rocleiveed gardens 1,000 deserves this discussion, rather i
where ehildren.are supposed to play in than tile curt, boorish dismis.sel by our Prior fisherfole make perhaps tpolire
a dare (Two lire is'about 10 mitts, the
narks. Also better water, and central i dictatorial Preniier- and his obedient " amount the average urban , American
rest rooms. Instead of smell, oil and I satellities. The general •public could requires .to get himself to work In the
a broken crust on the streets, wile not I not make a worse effort to at least mining.) The.. yery' poor ' may live
a saving on, the on cost, and cornmence + calmly consider some aspeete of it, after entirely on seaweed, if they' ere near
The winter strongly oppoees the in tali
to the 'Commission, than Ohl our
on proper subfeantial paving? all the expert evidence and opinion sub -
crease of ofiletal, nalarin:r *here except, so-ealled seatesmen wile after all ap-
In oases where the official has extra pealed more parochial than a county
work to "do: Considering the war and council, I consider none of ti,:_te persons
certainly higher taxes very soon, we responsible for the-conferenee lived up
should be careful to use town tax to the': to vvitat the public. had expeetetk of
eery best p6ssible adirantage, , . then% • .
Tin' writer hopes to eee developnaent . The Commission themselves shouid
oh the koadway to the "harbor, and I have been content to eift and consoli-
ant sure ,sonle of the Councillors who date the diiergent views and evideece
won such a fine vote realize the feeling submitted to them, riot inake specifie
of the majority of netere. Hete- in4 ecomtnendations, but .allow the eon-
agoerrefelat-tonottretiennellO terenceettrbe guldedebyetheirefinedingor
thin give UK good' valuetfor our money, in implementing"by agreement the login-
-1 ehotild be, glad ,to hear the opinions latioii required. '
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of °there. The Federal Government should not
' A BY,S-TANDER. have placed the conference in the posi-
.Working there are Some tWenty
.people, many of whom used to teach er
study in Peiping Or -Tientsin universi-
tlea: , They lead e simple life, growing
their own .vegetables and gathering
their own firewood. Though an 'int
the ragged boys' I had seen mobilizing
in •September, but, many IN'ept openly
at being separated from their families.
For Africa, with its thirsts and peers,
Italiats have -a great fear, dating .back
to the elisastrohs first Dthiopian eam-
palgo In therlast century. •
—An ey.ewitness story in. Theyy,1ng
Age (New York). .
• THE 'PRESS -INNblhlTi CHIN' s
Chinese newspapermen behind eireiny
lines in North 'China. are' leading
Spartan., life, With their *fohd and
lodgingtaken care of, they receive
front three to Art dollars ei month as
pocket Money. Salary is soraething of
the Oast. .Yet, deapite .their materhil
'dieetimfort, pituggitiegieereralise re
'turning from his tour to Shansi and
Hemet reported ne decline in their enr
.thusiasin for the profession.
The largest ;Chinese news -sheet in
that region has a eirculittion of 50,000
copies. Om -the everage, ten ,persolfs
share cere copy. Thus it easily enjoys
-
a° reading, piiblic of half
people. - This' paper 'eomes out every
other day. Its editorial and pgiiithig
rooms are le an unostentatleTarni
.house.in the mountains on the 'Shansi -
'Hopei :border. During the last J'epetiese
mopping -up campaign,, gun -1M 'was
clearly audible at the -place. Yet the
newspaper staff stuck to thefr ,jobs.
*Through unusual ealinness, they ma
aged not to miss' a shigie edition;
Meanwhile,. they had made. all neces-
sary preparations • for .evacrtation ,at
short notice; if the Worst .sheuld hap-
pen. However, it did not..
Mimeographed news -sheets are found
practically eiervwhere behind Japanese
line's in the northern provinces:. Once
the Chungking journalist walked into d
small village not. far Away ifrom the
Peiping railway to find ;three
• tion of having, to accept or neject the
HE CAN 1)0 MISCHIEF report as a. .wlaole, but rathtv Have are ringed
(Orillia Paeltet end Thnes) found out hoW much or bow little of tile eoier ., and
If Oft. Iteriberet epersists in his report could be adopted by the different prevalent.
present eouree there le no doubt he eau: provinces. By this error,, which. peob" thin, bone
eriously embarrass, the Dominion ably was not the Prime Minister's, they -Floven the
Government In its war policies.-' It 'ihe .gave an dee card to the erratic, voluble the (Tot,.
—China 'at War (Chungking, West
hi ) "
0 rat .
•
GERMANY'S PEACE AIMS.
The eeicerrent tiemand for a, state-
ment of the peace 41110 of Great Britain
and her +allies is Seldom accompamied.
by a similar 'demand for .a statement
by Adolf Hitler of his"peace objectives.
Th.18 is not too surprising, for the Nazis
and ' -their apologists are well aware
that the ,Fuehrereis not a-maneofehis
word. Yet some of his actions hint at
the road that he would folio* were he
to achieve peace wiiile -undefeated in
Europe,.
„ How would -the map of rope "look
-under-a vietorieus-HitlerS Is-4,te4on-
ceivable that a man who has uprooted
thousands' of German-speaking persons
from +Lithuania, Latvia., Estonia, Per-
ianth Poland, Itumania ,and elsewhere
would permit omeGermans tb. live in
"Weleimportant" places? It is not
fantastic to believe that the self-styled
"fanatical!' leetlet of the +Germane
ldeti.Ate,Doim-
G ft Distress
If aimpcoldr‘haavse citpllingcoksownW,,tts...
big coughing, Muscular soreness,
or irritation in upper bronchial
tubes, see what a' VapoRubMas.
sage",4au do fbr yoUl
With this more 'thorough treat",
ment, the poultice-andevapor
action of Vicks Vaprenub more
effectively' PelierRATEsirritated air
passages soothing roodicinal
vapors e. ;SIMULATES chest and
back like a; warming poultice or „
"plaster...STARTS REUEVING mi,sery
right away! Results delight even
old friends of VapoRule.
TO GET a aVa-P-Olt-u-niger n"n"
with all its benefits e•massage
VairoRub for 3 minutes on /Mr
PORTANT RIB -AREA OF RACK
as well as throat and, chest -
spread a 'thick layer on chest,
cover with a warmed cloth. BE
SURE to use genuine; time -tested
=KS VAPORtill
Tlie_finest, inumoney. can buy—and_._
Costs only 451.a point!
the meet. 'Slimy and stinking, it is
eaten raw. lh +Naples, tbe fishermen
and their families live on raw fish
axid seaweed. Spaghettl. and the' Vail,'
ous other forms of pasta are tiot uni-
versally eaten, as one might suppose,
because not everyone eats afford •theln.
Children are nursed at the breast
until the second- yenr to save the cost
of. food,- Latin, fertility.eis naturally
great, and is encouraged by tile Duce's.
.1)Ounty for babies. Hence two child-
ren; a toddler and a pale-looking.infant,
may- be soon depending .upooraeedegle-
source of potuishment. Xi1k is unsafe
and expensive, and Many attain adult
-
hoed withotit knowing its taste. One
struck. by -the uppearanee" of the
children. Their dark, beatitiful eyes
with the sbadow of atutemia.
skin Manses ate +terribly
•Small fakes are pale, and
formation poor and eachitie.
grown -tips' often lame into
, -
unlikely that the Ontario ?reinter, tan Preinier•of 'Ontario t� use to again vent Allenee of nutritional ex
alter, or seriouely influence, those.. leis spite against MacKenzie Kingo
Mr. Ilepburn's error was in thus
exhibiting his small imeital ealibreeind
his unfitness to represent Ontario. • Nor
was this his only error, but he might
•have submitted an alternative better
1)10.11and not act Mei a eintill dog rvbielr
PRICED TO MATCH THE LOWEST...but
powered with L -HEAD ENGINE...
equipped with most advanced KNEE -ACTION
...TORPEDO STYLED with concealed running boards
policies. u*t ean and, will inter-
- •
TWO MEETINGS
fere with the Unity of purpose and ef-,
fort so enential to attaining the coun-
try's maximum war effort.
-
'(Christian Ocienee Monitory refuren to right until after returning
The news- carries reports of two un- „ to the shelter of his home.
usual personal meetings on January The appointment of a commission or
10, one betWeeil Adele Hitler and Benito even adopting their .reconntendatiOnS
3fursoiini, the other between Franklin should uot have been labelleda wreck-
Itooevelt and Wendell Willkie. Is It ing of Confederation, but, regarded
difileult to estimate which is inoye rather as a friendly inethodof study-
111cAY to PronlOte the WorId'a wefl ing improvements in adjusting powers
being? ! and responsibilities between the. Do-
; minion aud the different Provinees
The Giire , after ceventy Years of trial. This the
Tulin; to raving the lead, Private' general public coneidered Was the idea
Smith went eick and told the M.O. he in appointing the Cominissien, and even
had accidentally swallowed eonae petrol.
"tack to duty," said the M.O., "and
don't emoli:e for a eyed:, 1"
our te mays he only aelts for
pin Monty?" 'Yes, but the first pin
she wanted bad, twelve dieunonds in It."
`I
in time of war Should be so considered,
and methods of iliihrotoehinni,
where necessary. If considered hi a
friendly and eo-oPerative spirit no
dainagc, Shouhl come to eitheloour war
effort or the faturf, progrene of clanada,
J. N. KgrCNIGIIAN.
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